Peter Dyballa wrote:
Then some characters would have hundreds (in future thousands) of code pages... (I then would love Unicode.)
No, each character would have exactly one code page. For example (and omitting any unnecessary distinctions) the English letter "d" would be in the English code page whilst the Vietnamese letter "d" would be in the Vietnamese code page. Two distinct characters, two code pages. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex