[comp.text.tex] Help needed building an international LaTeX

matthieu@laas.fr (Matthieu Herrb) (11/14/90)

I want to build an "international" LaTeX with TeX3.0 on suns under
sunos-4.1 which includes the following:

o (At least) two hyphenations tables for english and french.

o 8 bit ISO Latin 1 character support

So I have many questions related to these topics:

1. Does it exist a standard encoding for language numbers ? 

2. How can the virtual fonts of TeX 3.0 help me to support the 8 bit
   character set ? What modifications are needed ?

3. dvips supports virtual fonts so no problems on this side. Does xtex
   support them also ? Or what other dvi previewer can I use ?

4. When will an "official" LaTeX with this kind of international
   support really buid-in come out ?

Thank you in advance for your help.

					Matthieu

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