[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Philipp Stephani]

Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:

>> Some operating systems or application offer "input systems" or "input methods" which allow to enter non-standard characters.
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>> XeTeX also supports UTF-16 encodings. \XeTeXdefaultencoding{CharsetName} and \XeTeXinputencoding{CharsetName} can set many others.
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> IIRC anything but UTF-8 and UTF-16 is strongly discouraged.

What about UTF-32? It is quite rare for text documents, but nevertheless an official Unicode encoding.

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>> Me, I don't know of any font that switches typographic conventions based on the script and language selected, what usually happens is that a different set features is activated for the selected combination.
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>> GNU Emacs offers input methods. One of them, always available, is C-q <some number>, and the number can be octal, decimal, or hexadecimal.
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> You just have to memorize the Unicodecode:-)

There are lots of other methods as well. The default input method (to be activated via C-\) is RFC-1345, which seems to be the method that Vim uses for its C-k sequences. C-q is just the most basic method.