> > It looks as though two strong Unicode encoding candidates for TeX/LaTeX are > > the UTF-8 and UTF-32. The UTF-32 encoding might be better to used > > internally for performance and programming convenience reasons. The UTF-8 > > encoding is better to work with as an extension of ASCII. So one might make > > a TeX version that say uses UTF-32 internally, and UTF-8 and UTF-32 > > externally. omega has capable of this for ages (for some value of 32). enctex (part of tetex-3) also allows utf-8 input. latex, of course, has utf-8 as an optional input coding, for languages for which there's a latex output encoding. (actually, has had for a long time, with a contributed package.) > ExTeX use internal UTF-32! is there anything of any substance to know about extex? the web site doesn't look any different from what i saw ages back when i first made an entry for the project in my faq.