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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] latex problem
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Date: Wed,  8 May 2002 11:13:48 -0400
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Doesn't directly address your problem, but

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/utftex.c

converts between normal tex and unicode tex.
If you ran this filter over the file before
running latex you'd avoid whatever bug you're
hitting.

Russ