Hello, In recent versions of Latex it is not a problem to handle the UTF8 encoding, especially for PDFs. Usually the following command should be enough: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} There is also an option for hyperref to write unicode chars into the pdf: \usepackage [pdftex, unicode]{hyperref} After that the issue is the correct font with unicode support. One could use the Bitstream font from Netscape. For all european and us characters the standard fonts will be just good enough. It gets difficult if you wan't to typeset Asian (CJK) or Arabian text alongside european special chars (like german Umlauts). Manuals for that can be found here: (eng) http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/aslaksen/ (german) http://www.jawiki.de/wiki/display/WAD/MikTex Maybe it helps a bit. greetings Jonas Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Hello,
have you cared somehow for all the very many encoding issues that can arise using TeX? Basically, you'd want UTF-8 to be eaten by pdftex but I haven't seen it here (this is far more important than one considers).
Also I haven't seen escapes for all the math-specific characters, in particular "_" and "^" which both, in tex's nonstopmode, force an entry in math-mode.