On Thu, 15 May 2008, Will Robertson wrote: > I think I'd like to propose a "forwards compatibility" disabling in this > package that detects the presence of XeTeX or LuaTeX (or Aleph or Omega if > there's any continued use of those programs) and finishes gracefully without > trying to turn the UTF8 octets into active chars. The package can still serve > the useful purpose of switching the input encoding of the document (in XeTeX > at least). Just trying to understand your proposal... Are your proposing something like this at the beginning of inputenc.sty: \ifThisIsXeTeX \switchInputEncodingTo{\optarg} \endinput \fi ? If so, is there a simple implementation of \ifThisIsXeTeX ? Rainer Schöpf