Cork encoding
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Details
In 8-bit TeX engines the font encoding has to match the encoding of hyphenation patterns where this encoding is most commonly used.[3] In LaTeX one can switch to this encoding with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, while in ConTeXt MkII this is the default encoding already. In modern engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX Unicode is fully supported and the 8-bit font encodings are obsolete.
Character set
Notes
- Hexadecimal values under the characters in the table are the Unicode character codes.
- The first 12 characters are often used as combining characters.
Supported languages
The encoding supports most European languages written in Latin alphabet. Notable exceptions are:
- Esperanto and Maltese language (using IL3)
- Latvian language and Lithuanian language (using L7X)
- Welsh language
Languages with slightly suboptimal support include:
- Galician language, Portuguese language and Spanish language – due to the lack of characters ª and º, which are not superscript versions of lowercase "a" and "o" (superscripts are thinner) and they are often underlined
- Croatian language, Bosnian language, Serbian language – due to the shared use of the slot for Đ
- Turkish language – due to dotless i having different uppercase and lowercase combinations than in other languages
References
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