utf-based lang-* files?

[Christopher Creutzig <christopher@creutzig.de>]

Salvete,

 while I am aware that my Japanese is ages away from creating anything
releasable, I thought about creating a lang-jap.tex file for my personal
use (and maybe for having it corrected by someone actually speaking the
language).  Now, checking lang-chi.tex, I find it is encoded in a way I
don't really want to copy.  I'd much rather write the whole file in
“proper” utf-8.  Is it possible to simply enclose the file in a
\startregime[utf]...\stopregime pair or do I risk havoc by doing this?

 (Should I start with this project, I'll have more questions, such as:
How do I make a unicode character such as 。active, for good line breaks?)


Christopher