Hans Aberg writes: > Incidentally, this touches on a LaTeX question: What about LaTeX and Unicode? nothing -- no issue -- no problem, except that it would make some parts of the current kernel unnecessary (ie 8bit support) if you think a bit about it then this isn't a question of LaTeX but first of all a question of the underlying program TeX which is 8bit. There is a unicode version of TeX under development which is called Omega and LaTeX does run under Omega. frank