[NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

[Christopher Creutzig]

Hans Hagen wrote:

>> So why not mapping the characters to unicode first and defining the
>> mapping from unicode to \TeXcommand only once? regi-* files (at least
>> in the meaning they have now) could be prepared automatically by a
>> script, less error-prone and without the need to say "Some more
>> definitions will be added later."
>>  
>>
> you mean ...
> 
> \defineactivetoken 123 {\uchar{...}{...}}
> 
> it is an option but it's much slower and take much more memory

  I may be wrong, of course, but I think Mojca proposed something 
different (and something that should be really easy to implement):  Have 
the unicode vectors stored in a format easily parsed by an external ruby 
script and create the regi-* files from that, using the conversion 
tables provided by your operating system or iconv or wherever ruby gets 
them from.


regards,
	Christopher