Javier,

 > > i didn't
 > > implemented it
 > > that way to avoid having to distribute fontenc as well right now.
 >
 > A good [practical] reason :-), but why not to wait a little with
 > a new inputenc/fontenc?

wait what for precisely? with Redheat (and perhaps others) starting to use
utf8 as the default linux encoding there is a real need to be able to process
such documents in LaTeX (when based on TeX)


frank