On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:30:34PM +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > TeX is 7bit with a parser that accepts 8bit but doesn't by default gives it > any meaning. On the other hand Omega is 16bit (or more these days?) and could > be viewed as internally using something like Unicode for representation. But isn't the 7/8-bit stuff in TeX "system-dependent"? I take this to mean optional. Couldn't one therefore make UTF-8 the standard without even asking the Great Man's premission? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland