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Hi All, I'm a newbie experimenting with TeX/ConTeXt as a cross-platform MS Word/Quark/InDesign/etc. substitute. I like what I've seen so far, so I moved on to exploring how well it would support a multilingual situation. And this is where I started to get confused... I need to be able to use both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, English and perhaps one or two other languages. The problem with Chinese is that there are several different encoding standards--Big5, GB, HZ, etc. I'm trying to avoid the mess involved in moving documents between Big5 and GB by going to UTF-8 as a standard. Despite all my Googling however, I still haven't been able to establish a suitable tool chain to process these documents using TeX/ConTeXt... some of my initial points of confusion are: 1. TeX. Apparently it is not UTF-8 capable, hence Omega and NTS. However, I see Unicode extensions for LaTeX. How is this possible, and what is the analogous situation for ConTeXt? 2. ConTeXt. I see passing references to some kind of UTF-8 extension, but cannot find documentation on it. mchinese.pdf also mentions this in passing. Is it possible to feed UTF-8 documents to ConTeXt? 3. Font installation. mchinese.pdf describes how to install Chinese fonts, but the tools used are not available in some of the environments that I've been using (Mac OS X, Debian/GNU Linux, etc.) I did come across ttf2tex, but there's no mention of this in mchinese.pdf. Where can I find more current instructions for installing fonts for ConTeXt? Finally, I wonder if anybody else finds the pragma-ade.nl site very hard to use/navigate because of the heavy use of PDFs? Some of the in-document links that call up other PDFs are broken. And, if the browser isn't set up right, it tries to download the PDF rather than opening it in-place. I can't help thinking that a more HTML-oriented site would actually improve navigability and utility... ...Edmund.