Encoding Emacs and Latex

Encoding Emacs and Latex

[Joerg]

Hi,

I have a strange problem. When I write in Emacs I can use special character
like äöü, which are properly displayed. But if I run Latex I get instead of
äöü other characters. Even if I open the tex-file in another editor I get
the replaced characters. If I type äöü in the other editor and open the file
in Emacs I get something like \344\366 etc.

Any idea what the problem is and where I have to look for a solution?

Cheers,

Joerg

Re: Encoding Emacs and Latex

[August Karlstrom]

On sön, 2005-03-13 at 01:03 +0800, Joerg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem. When I write in Emacs I can use special character
> like äöü, which are properly displayed. But if I run Latex I get instead of
> äöü other characters. Even if I open the tex-file in another editor I get
> the replaced characters. If I type äöü in the other editor and open the file
> in Emacs I get something like \344\366 etc.
> 
> Any idea what the problem is and where I have to look for a solution?

You give no info about encoding or TeX version (tetex, MikTeX). If you
use Unicode utf-8 (an `u' is shown to the left in the modeline), add the
line

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

to the preamble. If you use tetex you may have to install the `tetex-
unicode' package.

-- 
August

Re: Encoding Emacs and Latex

[Joerg]

Hi August,

> You give no info about encoding or TeX version (tetex, MikTeX). If you
> use Unicode utf-8 (an `u' is shown to the left in the modeline), add the
> line

Thank you for your help. I played a little with the encodings and solved my
problem. I turned TexShop to Latin1-Encoding, my tex-files to

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} .

And now it works.

Previously I used the MacOS Roman encoding for my files and
[applemac]{inputenc}.

Cheers,

Joerg