Martn:
> Of course LaTeX will survive (probably all of us): But only as a
> markup language for scientific articles.
... in English. If utf-8 is not handled natively but with
active characters, a window to other languages is closed.
Well, perhaps for Spanish or French, using the Latin
script, is not too serious, but for Greek, Russian, and
not to mention Arabic, things become a mess.
Cheers
Javier