Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[giglio robbo' d'acciaio]

I'didn't understood yet if it's a latex or emacs related problem, anyway...
Latex aborts when compiling file with accented letters, like àèìòù etc.
I use utf-8 encoding in my ~/.emacs:

(custom-set-variables
 '(current-language-environment "UTF-8"))

 and i've added support for unicode input encoding in my file.tex inserting:

\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

Any clue?
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Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.01.2005 um 16:06 schrieb giglio robbo' d'acciaio:

> I'didn't understood yet if it's a latex or emacs related problem, 
> anyway...
> Latex aborts when compiling file with accented letters, like àèìòù etc.
> I use utf-8 encoding in my ~/.emacs:
>
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(current-language-environment "UTF-8"))

I'd like to give all guilt to Emacs. GNU Emacs has a few options for a 
file-encoding. It could have chosen one that is incompatible with what 
Dominique Unruh thought would be UTF-8 content. Since you are obviously 
using Latin glyphs why don't you use for LaTeX

	\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

and

       (set-default-coding-systems           'iso-latin-9-unix)
       (set-keyboard-coding-system           'iso-latin-9)
       (prefer-coding-system                 'iso-latin-9-unix)

for GNU Emacs? Otherwise you might like to choose from this:

;       (set-language-environment               'UTF-8)
         (set-default-coding-systems             'utf-8)
         (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
         (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
;       (set-keyboard-coding-system             'utf-8)
;       (set-terminal-coding-system             'iso-8859-9-unix)
         (set-terminal-coding-system             'utf-8)
;;      (set-clipboard-coding-system            'utf-8)
;;      (set-selection-coding-system            'utf-8)
         (set-language-environment               'German)
;       (prefer-coding-system                   'iso-8859-15)

You can check with 'mule-diag what's the situation in Emacs.

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Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 17.01.2005 um 16:06 schrieb giglio robbo' d'acciaio:
>
>> I'didn't understood yet if it's a latex or emacs related problem,
>> anyway...
>> Latex aborts when compiling file with accented letters, like àèìòù etc.
>> I use utf-8 encoding in my ~/.emacs:
>>
>> (custom-set-variables
>>  '(current-language-environment "UTF-8"))
>
> I'd like to give all guilt to Emacs. GNU Emacs has a few options for a
> file-encoding. It could have chosen one that is incompatible with what
> Dominique Unruh thought would be UTF-8 content. Since you are
> obviously using Latin glyphs why don't you use for LaTeX
>
> 	\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>
> and
>
>        (set-default-coding-systems           'iso-latin-9-unix)
>        (set-keyboard-coding-system           'iso-latin-9)
>        (prefer-coding-system                 'iso-latin-9-unix)
>
> for GNU Emacs?

Because it would be really devastatingly stupid to specify _different_
encodings for LaTeX and Emacs?

Either use latin1 with both, or latin9 with both, or if you really
must, utf-8 with both (but then preview-latex will not work properly).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[Matthias]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Because it would be really devastatingly stupid to specify
> _different_ encodings for LaTeX and Emacs?

I don't understand... I've been using the following for years with a
latin-9 environment then a utf-8 one; never seen any problem...

(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.tex\\'" 'iso-latin-1)
-- 
Matthias

Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[David Kastrup]

Matthias <cimosque@free.fr> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Because it would be really devastatingly stupid to specify
>> _different_ encodings for LaTeX and Emacs?
>
> I don't understand... I've been using the following for years with a
> latin-9 environment then a utf-8 one; never seen any problem...
>
> (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.tex\\'" 'iso-latin-1)

But Peter did not recommend that.  Peter recommended using
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} together with setting Emacs' encoding to
latin9 (aka iso-8859-15).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[Matthias]

> But Peter did not recommend that. Peter recommended using
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} together with setting Emacs' encoding
> to latin9 (aka iso-8859-15).

You're right! I was reading eyes wide shut...
-- 
Matthias

Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[giglio robbo' d'acciaio]

Forgive me i I make dumb questions but this unicode stuff really drives me
crazy.
Once I've saved a file using unicode utf-8, how can I translate it into another
coding system, like latin-1 for istance, without messing 8bit chars?

Thanks
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Non capisco tutta questa eccitazione per il multitasking: io sono anni
che leggo in bagno.
                -- Carlo Landini

Re: Trouble compiling latex sources in UTF-8 encodind

[David Kastrup]

giglio robbo' d'acciaio <daniele@mother.nostromo.wy> writes:

> Forgive me i I make dumb questions but this unicode stuff really
> drives me crazy.

> Once I've saved a file using unicode utf-8, how can I translate it
> into another coding system, like latin-1 for istance, without
> messing 8bit chars?

C-x RET f runs the command set-buffer-file-coding-system
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `international/mule'.
It is bound to C-x RET f, <menu-bar> <options> <mule> <set-various-coding-system> <set-buffer-file-coding-system>.
(set-buffer-file-coding-system CODING-SYSTEM &optional FORCE NOMODIFY)

Set the file coding-system of the current buffer to CODING-SYSTEM.
This means that when you save the buffer, it will be converted
according to CODING-SYSTEM.  For a list of possible values of CODING-SYSTEM,
use M-x list-coding-systems.

If CODING-SYSTEM leaves the text conversion unspecified, or if it
leaves the end-of-line conversion unspecified, FORCE controls what to
do.  If FORCE is nil, get the unspecified aspect (or aspects) from the
buffer's previous `buffer-file-coding-system' value (if it is
specified there).  Otherwise, leave it unspecified.

This marks the buffer modified so that the succeeding C-x C-s
surely saves the buffer with CODING-SYSTEM.  From a program, if you
don't want to mark the buffer modified, specify t for NOMODIFY.
If you know exactly what coding system you want to use,
just set the variable `buffer-file-coding-system' directly.


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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum