[NTG-context] <mtext> UTF further problems

[Duncan Hothersall]

> Duncan> I'm still having trouble with UTF contents in <mtext> tags in
> Duncan> MathML content.
> 
> For whatever it is worth, I just tried that.  A double-acute u (U+0171)
> came through w/o problem.  I'm using a gentoo box w/ tetex 3.0.

Thanks very much for trying it out.

> I tried both dvi and pdf output.  Both worked.
> 
> Are you sure your file is in utf-8 and not, eg, utf-16?

I was, but I'm no longer sure of anything. :-) Is there a foolproof way 
of finding out?

It seems that lots of editors try to 'help' by doing automatic guessing 
and automatic translations into other encodings, making it very 
difficult to tie things down. (And web browsers do that same when 
submitting things over the web, so I can't do what I usually do and test 
on Live.) I tend to use emacs, which I thought was a pretty safe bet, 
but maybe I should try something else?

> What platform are you on?  

I'm testing on both Windows and (Redhat) linux, both with the current 
minimal ConTeXt installations (i.e. mswintex.zip and linuxtex.zip). They 
exhibit the same behaviour.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Duncan