> > http://www.Uni-Mainz.DE/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=babel/3046 > > Johannes talkes about the difficulties in providing this, but is it really > something one wants? > > - except when using mule (or emacs) one doesn't (automatically) change input > encodings when > changing a language in the middle of the document. I have tried so, using emacs (for an English-German-Russian doc), and was not quite happy about it. Then I found out that a utf-8 based encoding is work-in-progress, and this would be A Good Thing to pursue and integrate into the kernel in mid-term. See the current version at http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/ , CTAN is not up-to-date :-(hark, Robin). Its author Dominique Unruh (cc:) also put some effort in an experimental automatic font encoding selector (unsupported/autofe.sty) which is used primarily for use with CJK (afai understood, I don't speak any fareast tongue). I would not vote for following the Java train to all-unicode-processing now, but it would be fine if latex entered the platform. Karsten -- Karsten Tinnefeld [log in to unmask] Fachbereich Informatik, Lehrstuhl 2 T +49 231 755-4737 Universität Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Deutschland F +49 231 755-2047