James Cloos a écrit : > As for utf-8 or other, it may be useful to default to the character set > specified for the current $LOCALE. Maybe. :-/ > Please don't do anything in the compilation of the document depend on the locale! It would completely ruin portability of the source files. A file must be assumed to be either utf-8 (auxiliary file written by XeTeX/LuaTeX) or in the encoding declared as the option of inputenc. Exactly what xetex-inputenc and luatex-inputenc do. The difficult problem is to guess when a file is an auxiliary file. I suppose the heuristics for doing so will improve when the solution gets tested. Manuel.