On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de> wrote: > Am Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:14:15 +0100 schrieb luigi scarso: > >> if you mean ASCII with coderange 0-255 *and* ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) >> encoding there is no need to conversion; > > This is not true. You are mixing up unicode positions and utf8 > encoding. > > E.g. "ä" has the same position in unicode and latin1 (dez 228, hex > E4). But its utf8 code consist of 16 bits (1100001110100100, hex > c3a4) while its latin 1 code is 8-bit long (11100100). ah yes you are right -- I've made the implicit assumption that his file was already utf-8 encoded . I'm using only utf-8 from long time and I almost forget about ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.
system > tex > error on line 10 in file t1.txt: String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence ... (I believe he met the error during the next tries because he wrote > I cannot \input the file as this is not a valid ConTeXt source. ) What I meant was, as I wrote below, "To allow backward compatibility, the 128 ASCII and 256 ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) characters are assigned Unicode/UCS code points that are the same as their codes in the earlier standards" and this is true only for iso-8859-1 . -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
