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BibTeXu: a Unicode compliant version of BibTeX
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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.