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     Lo and behold!  I just found that we can type Latin-1 letters
directly in LaTeX files!  Maybe this isn't a big discovery for many of
you, but it is for me.  Few years ago, when my teacher first taught me
how to write in LaTeX, I was told to use \'e to write �, \`a for �, etc,

when I wanted to write in French.  This really won't make LaTeX source
files very readable.  Something like

La g\'en\'enralisation du th\'eor\`eme de Pythagore \'ecrite en
fran\,cais

isn't easy to be understood immediately as

La g�n�ralisation du th�or�me de Pythagore �crite en fran�ais

     Later on, I looked for other references and tutorials, esp on the
Internet, but nothing was said about ISO-8859-1 support in LaTeX.  Some
even suggest to use \'{e} for �.  Yurrkk!!  What a horror!!

     Lately, I'm using LyX to write documents.  By curiosity, I export a

LyX file as a LaTeX file and read its content.  I found that accented
characters like �, �, � are all written "as is" without using \'e, \"y
or \^o.  I then tried to compile it and everything was perfect!

     Now my first question is: Is Latin-1 supported in LaTeX by
defaults?

     I asked so because nowhere it's witten ISO 8859-1 (or Latin-1) in
my exported LaTeX file.  Furthermore, I suppose that for those using
other char-sets, eg Latin-2 or under a Mac, when they compile their
LaTeX file containing non-ASCII characters, I think they won't get what
they wanted.  Isn't it?

     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.

     Regards,

     Seak