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In article <376D2A8E.4AFE99A8@drfc.cad.cea.fr>, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
>     Now my first question is: Is Latin-1 supported in LaTeX by
>defaults?

You should \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
Then you can safely use latin 1 characters in your document.
There are an widening range of encodings supported by LaTeX
It may well be a good idea to use the T1 font encoding with latin 1 to
allow TeX to hyphenate words with accents.

>     My next and last question is: Is there any plan to support Unicode
>in LaTeX?  People like me use a lot of Greek letters and some Hebrew
>letters as symbols.  I really find it easier to read a real "alpha"
>letter than \alpha.

Not in TeX but the `TeX extension' called Omega uses Unicode and supports
all sorts of text directions.  It's under development now, it supports
Latin, Arabic and maybe other scripts.  Till then there are a number of
packages for typesetting various languages, usually via transliteration
to latin.

	James