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+BibTeXu: a Unicode compliant version of BibTeX
+======================================================================
+
+BibTeXu is the Unicode-compliant version of BibTeX, that reads (only)
+UTF-8 encoded files. It was written by Yannis Haralambous to use the
+ICU library with BibTeX. There is another 8-bit implementation of
+BibTeX, named BibTeX8 by Niel Kempson; however, BibTeXu by Yannis was
+an independent project.
+
+The one shipped with TL is updated so that BibTeX, BibTeX8 and BibTeXu
+shares more or less the same behavior wrt memory allocation, etc.
+Peter Breitenlohner put in the massive efforts needed to make this
+work in the TL build system and use the same ICU library as XeTeX.