From: n05W26+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?
Date: 1 Jul 2005 08:00:10 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da2t6a$oes$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y88rznus.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
|> > I changed
|> > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
|> > to
|> > \usepackage{ucs}
|> > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
|> > in the preamble, loaded each file, set Emacs to save in UTF8, and
|> > re-saved each file. It worked like magic.
As long as you use only a ISO 8859 subset of Unicode, using the
complete ucs package is overkill. A simple
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
will suffice instead on any recent LaTeX installation (e.g., tetex-3.0)
to handle UTF-8 input files. (By the way, it is UTF-8, not UTF8).
Markus
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Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-01 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 14:51 Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ? Adam Funk
2005-06-30 15:23 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-06-30 18:44 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-07-01 8:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
2005-07-01 8:26 ` Adam Funk
2005-07-01 8:23 ` Adam Funk
2005-07-01 8:57 ` Robin Fairbairns
2005-07-01 18:20 ` Adam Funk
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