Re: problem with old hebrew latex files in iso 8859-8 coding

[Stefan Monnier]

> A friend of mine posses a lot of hebrew latex files which still use
> 8859-8 coding. Understandable he wants to switch to UTF8 and xelatex.
[...]
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> %\usepackage[8859-8]{inputenc}

How does his TeX system know that this file is using 8859-8?
Normally, the `inputenc` package above does that, but it's
commented out.

If you uncomment it, Emacs should also automatically recognize that the
file is using iso-8859-8 and display the file as intended.


        Stefan