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mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) writes:

> I may be the only user of multi-lingual text who is constantly forced
> to migrate among hardware platforms of differing capabilities, but
> I rather doubt it. ...
>
No, you're not! In our department I've to manage different kind of
systems (as UNIX---RS/6000, Sparc, Apollo---, VAX/VMS, PC--MSDOS, ATARI TOS...)
and there are on most machines TeX-Installations.
Very often there is TeX code to migrate from one system to another,
and so I teach all users here to use *ONLY* 7bit TeX-inputs, otherwise
the files need to be converted each time they will be ported to another
system.
And the german language uses \"a \"o \"u \"A \"O \"U \ss{}  very often.

So 8bit input is very difficult, but a 16bit standard would be the best
in future (*WHEN* in future ???? ).

Stefan

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