Re: [DISCUSSION] Setting LuaLaTeX as default when exporting to LaTeX/PDF

[Juergen Fenn]

Am 03.04.25 um 09:37 Uhr schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
>> I don't agree. Users who are apparently happy with LuaLaTeX should
>> have no problems with pdflatex and UTF8.
> If you know an easy and universal way to support UTF8 is pdflatex,
> please do share.

I am sorry I could not read all the discussion up to here, but you might
like to take a look at this discussion that took place on several TUG
mailing lists whe TeX Live 2025 was published over the last weeks as to
whether to use pdftex, luatex, or xetex as the default engine. It turns
out that only luatex is capable of producing accessible pdf, next comes
pdftex, "albeit with some restrictions", and xetex falls short of this
feature. So most probably only luatex will be used in the long run, as
accessibility will be required for most publications, at least for
scientific papers. This is not only a ITF-8 issue. I'm surprised TeX
Live is said not to work properly out of the box on some Linux
distributions, hard to believe it's true. Please check again and report
to the appropriate tracker in case it really does not work on your system.

https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2025-March/051258.html

Regards,
Jürgen.