> We must avoid doing
>something that will be superseded by the next generation technology;
>also we must do something that makes the bulk and complexity of the
>scriptures manageable by software tools like search engines.

I've been wondering whether it would be a good idea to use the
Harvard-Kyoto system for storing the basic text. It looks a bit funny
but is universal, since it doesn't require any 'strange' characters.
Such a text is very easy to to do searches in, though it requires
that the search engine be case-sensitive (upper and lower case). From
there, viewing/writing programs could present the text using any
alphabet, and any encoding system that comes along in the future.

best regards,

/Rett