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