Re: On Unicode

[darrin]

Rather than read words per character it is generally preferrable to use
a multibyte encoding for files. The UTF-8 standard is a good example.
7-bit ascii looks the same as ASCII, and the top bit is a cascade-bit.

I think lout could be adapted to handle this input quite easily. The
real work would be in the PostScript backend. How does it handle large
character sets? Is it unicode-based? Also Unicode doesn't define
character codes for ligatures, which would make support of them
diffucult.

 - Darrin