[texhax] unicode

[Alexander Grahn]

Hi,

in order to extend my package I need to write name strings into PDF or
intermediate DVI (depending on whether pdfLaTeX or latex is being used)
for name <-> object mappings within PDF name trees. The problem is that
some of these name strings must have Unicode encoding to work properly.

Does there exist a TeX/pdfTeX primitive or a suitable package to translate
arbitrary strings [A-Za-z0-9_]+ from ASCII to Unicode?

Thanks for your advice,

Alexander