Hans Hagen wrote:

you can try to use active characters but better is to wait till open type support (and more advanced type 1 support) is available; the first usabla beta's are scheduled around eurotex (may 2007);
keep in mind that luatex is *not* stable, under active development, and that we take the freedome to change every aspect of it; we plan to have stable versions available end-of-2007; implementing macro based solutions and expecting them to work in the future is kind of dangerous and esp upcoming versions will probably be broken in many aspects (esp when tex's font mechanisms are being replaced / extended)
so, porting documents is not a good idea right now; also, till we have complete open type support and more, luatex is hardly a replacement for pdftex; if you are in a hurry with utf and latex is unsufficient, you may want to look into xetex

Actually, as far as Unicode/UTF8 support goes pdftex and LaTeX are sufficient. The issue is more that they are lacking in the programmability space. However, given the May 2007 estimate on a beta release, it may still be better for me to just get by the with existing hacks around the problem.

Thanks for the information!

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[Geoff Washburn|geoffw@cis.upenn.edu|http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~geoffw/]