[NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>I'm still slighlty confused by the encoding files (texnansi, ec,...,
>in one case iso-8859-7 is used). Does it mean that it is impossible
>(or at least very complex or slow) to access more than 256 characters
>from a single font at once?
>  
>
indeed and since it's related to hyphenation ... 

but some day pdftex will be 32 bit and open type so ... 

Hans 



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