Werner LEMBERG writes:
> Is the LaTeX team aware that by choosing `utf8' as an input encoding
> name, many documents which use Dominique Unruh's utf8.def file no
> longer compile? Why hasn't been chosen a different name, say,
> `utf-8'?
because the agreed solution was to use utf8 for the kernel. from Dominique:
=== 5. Interoperability with ucs.sty
There are some name clashes with my Unicode package.
- utf8.def: I accept the fact, that this is the canonical name for
that file and will rename my inputencoding in favour of the kernel's
encoding.
> I consider this a serious compatibility problem which should be fixed
> ASAP, deserving an intermediate LaTeX release.
no. there is probably some more work to do to make the extended version work
nicely with the kernel one but that is/should happen behind the scenes
frank