I'm not sure how far LaTeX can get stretched to support Unicode. It appearsFrank Mittelbach (firstname.lastname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) has posted on 2003-01-07 on latex-bugs@latex-project the beginnings of a far more lightweight UTF-8 support for LaTeX within the inputenc framework, which will hopefully find its way into the next release:
http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=latex%2F3480
-- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/