Werner LEMBERG writes: > Is the LaTeX team aware that by choosing `utf8' as an input encoding > name, many documents which use Dominique Unruh's utf8.def file no > longer compile? Why hasn't been chosen a different name, say, > `utf-8'? because the agreed solution was to use utf8 for the kernel. from Dominique: === 5. Interoperability with ucs.sty There are some name clashes with my Unicode package. - utf8.def: I accept the fact, that this is the canonical name for that file and will rename my inputencoding in favour of the kernel's encoding. > I consider this a serious compatibility problem which should be fixed > ASAP, deserving an intermediate LaTeX release. no. there is probably some more work to do to make the extended version work nicely with the kernel one but that is/should happen behind the scenes frank