[input encodings] > On the other hand using different encodings for a language within one > document is somewhat perverse. unusual, maybe, but not perverse. a regular requirement is the ability to create documents whose sections come from multiple sources (not something it's easy to support, mind you...). if one's original authors are writing in polish (or russian) -- indeed almost any language other than english, given the multitudinous national variants of iso 646 that still hang on in backwaters -- then one may expect > So it would be reasonable to have per > document defaults. i would agree, but i wouldn't want to lose the ability to use other than the default. which rather negates the impact of the `default' mechanism. robin