> combining several languages in one document (Turkish + Russian

what's the problem with this ? just encode as UTF-8 and type however you like.

"Things may have changed slightly since I last used it " :)

It's a good thing it finally got to understand Unicode. It was a pain previously

The hyphenation algorithm, I guess, needs some knowledge of the language. Probably a lot more issues as well.

Currently works perfectly for me with English and German where I place \selectlanguage{UKenglish} and \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of the appropriate paragraphs. Hyphenation then simply works.

> Currently works perfectly for me with English and German

Both fit neatly into the same codepage, latin-1, so no possible conflicts there

> I place \selectlanguage{UKenglish} and \selectlanguage{ngerman} in front of the appropriate paragraphs

What about mixing two languages within the same paragraph? \selectlanguage before and after each word?

You've got a pretty unique use-case. What's an alternative you would recommend for this kind of work?

There's nothing really unique for that document. It's just an outline of a document for an international company.

We also tried to use latex to generate price reports, and that's where we ran into Russian + Turkish issue :)

For simple documents like the one at the link, I'd go with Word/Pages. For generating pdfs though... I still have no idea :)