[Fwd: Re: Converting German Umlauts to LaTeX]

[Christian Herenz]

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