Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There are a couple of assumptions here (and in Eric F.'s mail about the
> > TeX input method as well). One is that the buffer is encoded in UTF-8:
> > if you use e.g iso-8859-1, you can use whatever input method you want,
> > but you'll end up with a byte in your file that LaTeX won't like.
> 
> Umm, just to clarify something: the file can well be in iso-8859-1
> encoding.  It need not be in UTF-8 if all you want are typical west
> European characters (umlauts etc.).  For instance, the following file
> contents work just fine (I've forced iso-8859-1 encoding although I use
> UTF-8 more often than not):
> 
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1; -*-
> 
> * Introduction
> 
> This text includes a number of characters from España because we want
> to say /cigüeña/ instead of /swan/.
> 
> This exports just fine to latex and org automatically includes the line:
> 
> : \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> 
> I've attached the org file in case anybody wants to play with this very
> small example.
> 
> 

Ah, thanks: I forgot how smart org is.

Nick