Roozbeh Pournader writes:

 > I am with you. So let's make it written: LaTeX can't have anything like
 > UTF-8 as a internal character representation if not running over
 > Omega, because of the different accent model.

not quite. you have to add: without removing TeX's internal parser fully from
the game (which you might be able to)

 > I can be sure that Javier is
 > also with you, since he really likes accent juggling in multiple phases ;)

good, so we can have some fun together in Japan discussing it
frank