[texhax] Tironian Sign Et

[Karl Berry]

    To use Unicode directly you need a variant such as Omega, Aleph or  
    XeTeX, 

Well, TL 2004 included encTeX (enabled by dumping formats with -enc,
e.g., changing fmtutil.cnf), which has full support for UTF-8.
http://www.olsak.net/enctex.html

Also, \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} will do a lot, though it can't do
everything.

    but you'll still need to find a font which has this symbol which  
    can be used from one of these.

Yes, that's the important point ...