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On Dec 19,  7:47pm, you wrote:

> Let me say for the moment that I consider the multilingual component
> of ltx3 and thus of BibTeX1 an integral part of the project and with
> therefore consider any propals in this direction with great care.

I'm sure you will also take into consideration the very sophisticated
multilingual stuff which has been put into makeindex 3.  I hope
that BibTeX and Makeindex will use the same system for defining
sort order, etc.  Perhaps they could read the same external table
defining sort order, digraph/trigraph characters, etc.  I see
not much wrong with the makeindex system, and perhaps the code
could be written straight into BibTeX?

Dominik