the translation mode, being bibtex, creator, biblatex or minimal. Use minimal if your TeX environment supports unicode. In bibtex mode, combining characters are braced to that character/word counts are reliable, at the cost of more verbose output. creator is a special mode for bibtex creator that helps composite characters to be counted as a single unit for in-text citations.
Transform the given text to LaTeX
the text to transform
loads a unicode -> TeX character map to use during conversion