Javier, > > i didn't > > implemented it > > that way to avoid having to distribute fontenc as well right now. > > A good [practical] reason :-), but why not to wait a little with > a new inputenc/fontenc? wait what for precisely? with Redheat (and perhaps others) starting to use utf8 as the default linux encoding there is a real need to be able to process such documents in LaTeX (when based on TeX) frank