From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Converting German Umlauts to LaTeX Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:01:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177083493 27316 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 15:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:38:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 17:38:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HevBV-0007OC-81 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HevGZ-00044Z-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:43:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:01:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DAgxgMSswotrjJa00tA/tTbnniM= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-YgHqfmZi14NtepgSlINl1HsUl+MvT7jJ3MZ86zB8oPxmcxM6mtELSobjyOqQ3w6RAMPE40WT4UZLGfa!I2vyG3+eHlZxtX4daVF72aIcbGzo8yuxfS0pTCRzfMLRijZ5TW0/eO9GYtqEOvM7XvgFJVkxaBCl!Ug7Q460kTlKHRx4VMA== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147297 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42902 Archived-At: > I write my LaTeX documents usually in emacs, that works very fine at my > personal computer. Since I am german, I use the UTF-8 encoding. I load the > package for UTF-8 encoding in TeX simply with /usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}, > which really improves typing a lot (I am german, so I use frequently umlauts > and the szlig). > However, at the computer-terminals in our institute, they do not support > UTF-8. LaTeX gives me an error-message, that [utf-8] is not supported > by inputenc. I also recommend you fix it on the TeX side, not in Emacs. I.e. try "utf8" instead of "utf-8", or "utf8x" even (some names that I've seen used in the past with inputenc), and if they really don't have utf-8 support in their TeX installation, then switch to latin-1, which I'm sure they support. > My idea was to convert the document into an UTF-8 free file. So that all > occurences of umlauts will be converted into the LaTeX equivalent (e.g. ö to > "o), and I could also compile the file on the debain-boxes at our instiute. You can do that with the iso-cvt Emacs package. But beware that it's not 100% identical (e.g. doesn't work right in verbatim environments). Stefan