Denis B. Roegel wrote: > Among the language attributes, there should IMHO be "default encodings." > These encodings would be either a pair of < input encoding, output encoding > > or a pair of lists of encoding, which would enable priorities. > For instance, English should have as a default < ASCII, OT1 >. > French should have < latin1, T1 >, Russian could have < koi8-r, X2 >, etc. > These encodings would then just be triggered when one writes > \selectlanguage{french}, etc. I haven't tried the new version of babel, Unfortunatelly many input encodings can be appropriate for a given language (e.g. for Polish we have at least 3 widely used encodings), and it may be difficult to judge, which of them should be default (this may depend on the operating system). So it probably is not such a good idea to have global defaults. On the other hand using different encodings for a language within one document is somewhat perverse. So it would be reasonable to have per document defaults. Marcin