Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > But why do we use it then for babel? The babel code (language names) > > also contains only ASCII characters? > > It is probably an oversight.
right. As I wrote, there may be occurences of from_utf8 where from_ascii is
sufficient. But think carefully. Sometimes ascii is not enough (e.g. in
package options, where you might have something like "title={weiß}").
Jürgen
