indeed -- I once id a whole set of python class slides in LaTeX -- really nice format, etc....

but in teh process from LaTeX to PDF, I ended up with stuff that looked like Code, but if you copy and pasted it the quotes were wrong -- but only sometimes -- I got pretty used to fixing it, but still was symied once in a while,a nd it was pretty painful for my students...

I think the "better error message" option is the way to go, however. At least until we all have better Unicode support in all our tools....

-CHB