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In article <RJC.92Aug6213611@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley) writes:
>   ep> o Ethnic leters almost never translate correctly when files are moved to
>   ep> workstations/mainframes at the department.
>
>   I don't understand how this can ever be a problem, slot X in a
>   Computer Modern font will be a given character on any platform,
>   surely? If it's a probem of the (La)TeX input text being displayed (eg
>   in your editor) differently on different platforms, that is going to
>   be a problem with any system. 
>

If you use PostScript fonts, you can be pretty sure that any site you send
an 8-bit tex file to doesn't use the same encoding as you.

At my U, both the PCs and the Macintosh have access to the same file
system as the Unix boxes use, so all sites that are aware of this (and
don't install fonts locally) can use the same encoding.

For editors, filters between the character sets of IBM CODEPAGE X,
Macintosh, and Latin1 are a must at any large site.

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