From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Herenz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [Fwd: Re: Converting German Umlauts to LaTeX] Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4629DD3B.80103@physik.hu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177148759 19652 80.91.229.12 (21 Apr 2007 09:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:45:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 11:45:52 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 1HfCAA-0002S7-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfCFK-0006Q8-7l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfCF8-0006Q3-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HfCF6-0006Pr-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfCF6-0006Po-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:50:56 -0400 Original-Received: from irz6.physik.hu-berlin.de ([141.20.40.56] helo=mail.physik.hu-berlin.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HfC9w-0007Ed-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (irz6.physik.hu-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.hu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F841A0005 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.3] (e178236186.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.236.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.physik.hu-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E241A0004 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:32 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020222 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:42958 Archived-At: Daniel Rubin schrieb: >> All above mentioned packages are not supported. However, I know that >> they plan to switch to debian-etch soon. Do you know, if etch has UTF-8 >> support build in? >> (sorry for OT) > > I don't know, but have you tried my first suggestion and provided > LaTeX with your own copy of `utf8.def'? I think that solved the > problem for me once. > > I now use Latin 9 encoding on both machines, having set emacs to save the latex files automatically in Latin 9: (setq file-coding-system-alist (append '(("\\.tex\\'" iso-latin-9-unix . iso-latin-9-unix)) ; '(("\\.el\\'" iso-latin-9-unix . iso-latin-9-unix)) file-coding-system-alist)) (Thanks to Peter Dyballa). This works perfect! UTF-8 is a great thing I think, but I always have problems with it, because it is not yet the ultimate standard, which it should become soon. Greetings Christian