Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Adam Funk]

Until now I've always edited my LaTeX documents with Emacs using the
ISO-Latin-1 encoding.  Recently I needed to put the "ž" (z with an
inverted circumflex, in case that doesn't show up correctly) in a
BibTeX entry so I decided to try switching the document (not very big
or complicated) to UTF8.

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.

But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis contains
a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
commands in math mode.

-- 
Thanks,
Adam

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.06.2005 um 16:51 schrieb Adam Funk:

> But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
> simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis contains
> a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
> commands in math mode.
>

Make a test with one or more excerpts, edited a bit to contain quite 
all Swedish characters!

Could be you meet some errors in the utf8 files of the LaTeX 
distribution (a few were reported to LaTeX bugs: 
http://www.latex-project.org/bugs-upload.html) ...

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

“I hope to die before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.”
      - Donald E. Knuth, 2001-10-02 in Tübingen.

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"Adam Funk" <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:

> Until now I've always edited my LaTeX documents with Emacs using the
> ISO-Latin-1 encoding.  Recently I needed to put the "ž" (z with an
> inverted circumflex, in case that doesn't show up correctly) in a
> BibTeX entry so I decided to try switching the document (not very big
> or complicated) to UTF8.
>
> 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.
>
> But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
> simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis contains
> a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
> commands in math mode.

Not at all.  Before you do this on your thesis, you want to learn
about the command cp(1).


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Markus Kuhn]

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

-- 
Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Adam Funk]

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> > But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
> > simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis contains
> > a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
> > commands in math mode.
>
> Not at all.  Before you do this on your thesis, you want to learn
> about the command cp(1).

:-)

It's on CVS.

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Adam Funk]

Markus Kuhn wrote:

> 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).

I'm only using Western European characters and the occasional Eastern
European one, so I'll try it.

I'll try to remember "[utf8]" but "UTF-8".

-- 
Thanks,
Adam

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 "Adam Funk" <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:
>Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>> > But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
>> > simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis contains
>> > a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
>> > commands in math mode.
>>
>> Not at all.  Before you do this on your thesis, you want to learn
>> about the command cp(1).
>
>:-)
>
>It's on CVS.

oh, goodie.  can we all contribute?
-- 
Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge

Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?

[Adam Funk]

On Friday 01 July 2005 09:57, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

>  "Adam Funk" <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:
>>Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>>> > But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really
>>> > that
>>> > simple or if there are any pitfalls?  If it matters, my thesis
>>> > contains a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in
>>> > \text{...} commands in math mode.
>>>
>>> Not at all.  Before you do this on your thesis, you want to learn
>>> about the command cp(1).
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>It's on CVS.
> 
> oh, goodie.  can we all contribute?

Depends on how many corrections I have to make!
;-)