Re: Encoding of latex files

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.01.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Alain Muls:

> Is there a way to have the files generated by the answer package be  
> in UTF-8 and have the accented chars available


Are the LaTeX correctly encoded? The modeline gives a pointer near  
its left edge. You can click on that marker with the mouse pointer ...
Is the LaTeX file's preamble correctly set up for UTF-8 or "utf8x"  
input and T1 font encodings? I have not much experience with UTF-8  
input encoding in LaTeX, and this experience is mostly bad, that I  
keep using XeTeX, an UTF-8 native TeX system that can use TeX and  
system fonts (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? 
site_id=nrsi&item_id=XeTeX&). Have you thought of using the textcomp  
package? Do you use babel?

I found LaTeX classes that have problems with some content. Switching  
to modern T1 font encoding can be helpful, too. For a proof: try some  
simple and basic report or article or book with just some paragraphs  
of senseless text and many, many header and sub-header and sub-sub- 
header lines with plenty of accented French characters. If you can't  
achieve this basic task, then your TeX system is 15 or 20 years too  
old or your preamble is bad. If you see all accented chars, then  
answer.sty might be bad.


(I can send you privately a preamble that deals with pdfTeX, XeTeX,  
DVI and PDF output and the proper UTF-8 input encoding.)

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