>> > And is e-TeX or Omega having in plans to implement this? >> > Why other TeX implementation did not implemented this? It seems to >> > be not too hard. :-( >> Do it! Contribute a change file to web2c! Omega does not need this---it >> uses a completely different approach: it use so-called Omega Translation >> Processes (OTPs) which are final automata to translate input encodings, >> apply correct casification etc. A change file for web2c will not help for e-TeX; the latter is implemented as a changefile to TeX.web for reasons of portability, so an additional (codepage) changefile for web2c would only add codepage functionality to e-TeX implementations which use web2c as their basis. We discussed code pages at great length during an e-TeX meeting in Germany, and I have to say we failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion: if we are going to implement code pages, we would like to do so properly (which is not to say that Eberhard's aren't useful; we simply feel they don't go far enough), and despite several hours of debate we were unable to agree exactly what "properly" means in this context... ** Phil.