Yup, I totally agree that LuaLaTeX and BibLaTeX are awesome; that was even my platform for the (uncontested) TUG board election [0]. But UTF-8 mostly just works

Yup, I totally agree that LuaLaTeX and BibLaTeX are awesome; that was even my platform for the (uncontested) TUG board election [0]. But UTF-8 mostly just works with LaTeX these days, regardless of the engine: even pdfLaTeX has defaulted to UTF-8 since 2017 [1]. Fonts are still a mess in pdfTeX though, so I'll definitely second your fontspec+LuaLaTeX recommendation. [0]: https://tug.org/election/2023/candidates.html#chernoff https://tug.org/election/2023/candidates.html#chernoff [1]: https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews.pdf#section*.226 https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews.pdf#s...