Re: Exporting non utf8 org documents

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Francesco Pizzolante <fpz@missioncriticalit.com>
Cc: mailing-list-org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Exporting non utf8 org documents
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:26:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6B5F0F7A-F055-435F-ADE2-846E99649B1D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87my1tcu59.fsf@missioncriticalit.com>

Hi Francesco,

here is a possible solution:

Please get the latest git version of org-mode.  Then put the following  
code into
.emacs:

     (defun my-org-export-latex-fix-inputenc ()
       "Set the codingsystem in inputenc to what the buffer is."
       (let* ((cs buffer-file-coding-system)
              (opt (latexenc-coding-system-to-inputenc cs)))
         (when opt
           (goto-char (point-min))
           (while (re-search-forward "\\\\usepackage\\[\\(.*?\\)\\] 
{inputenc}"
                                     nil t)
             (goto-char (match-beginning 1))
             (delete-region (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
             (insert opt))
           (save-buffer))))

     (eval-after-load "org-latex"
       '(add-hook 'org-export-latex-after-save-hook
                  'my-org-export-latex-fix-inputenc))

Let me know how it goes.....

- Carsten

On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Francesco Pizzolante wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have colleagues who are writing Org documents with latin-1  
> encoding and when
> I export these documents to LaTeX I run into problems, because Org  
> assumes
> utf8.
>
> Here's a little example:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+LATEX_CLASS: article
>
> * Ceci est un test
>
> Voici un petit texte rédigé en français.
>
> * COMMENT Setup
>
> # This is for the sake of Emacs.
> # Local Variables:
> # coding: iso-latin-1
> # End:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> The exportation to LaTeX gives the following result:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> % Created 2009-12-08 mar. 17:10
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \usepackage{float}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
> \usepackage{soul}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{xcolor}
> \usepackage{listings}
>
> \title{org-french}
> \author{Francesco Pizzolante}
> \date{08 décembre 2009}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \maketitle
>
> \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
> \tableofcontents
> \vspace*{1cm}
>
> \section{Ceci est un test}
> \label{sec-1}
>
>
> Voici un petit texte rédigé en français.
>
>
>
> \end{document}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When compiling, due to the \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} directive, I  
> get this
> error:
>
> ERROR: Package utf8x Error: MalformedUTF-8sequence.
>
>
> In order to fix this issue, I see the following solutions:
>
> - Would it be possible for Org to automatically get the coding  
> system of the
> buffer and then generate the correct option for the inputenc package?
>
> or
>
> - Would it be possible to have a variable like #+CODING-SYSTEM: iso- 
> latin-1
> which would be used to generate the correct option for the inputenc  
> package?
>
> Any other proposition or idea is welcome.
>
> In addition, Org should use the `utf8x' option (instead of `utf8')  
> which
> enables to handle unbreakable spaces (useful in french).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
>
>
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- Carsten