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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: 8 bit characters in (La)TeX
Message-ID: <1990Jan11.185758.9726@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 90 18:57:58 GMT
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||  Yes, in TeX 3.0.
|
|Yes, better integrated.  But, I've already seen such in TeX 2.9.  From
|a local TeX file I have the following:
|
|\lccode`=` \uccode`=` \lccode`=` \uccode`=`
|
|\def\"#1{{\accent"7F #1\penalty10000\hskip 0pt plus 0pt}}
|
|\catcode`=\active \def{\"a}
|\catcode`=\active \def{\"A}
|
|Or is this just a kludge?  I'm not the TeXie that wrote this.

No, you are confusing the input code with the font map. What 8 bit
input means is that you can, for example, enter <i dieresis> as a
single charcter, instead of \"{\i}, using your ISO 8859 capable
terminal, and 8 bit capable editor.