[texhax] LGR for xelatex/lualatex

[David Carlisle]

On 24 May 2018 at 00:44, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>     It makes no more sense to use LGR encoded Greek in xelatex
>
> Couldn't it, if the author wants to use ASCII transliterations instead
> of actual Unicode Greek? Which may be desirable in their particular
> circumstance. -k

People will find a use for anything but LGR isn't really documented as
a usable transliteration scheme, just as an internal font encoding,
and you'd still get nonsensical hyphenation and meaningless code
points in the resulting PDF. It would be far better to use a font with
Greek in the Unicode Greek slots and transliterate using a TECKit or
other mapping that is designed to produce a usable result.

David