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

[n05W26+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (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

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