From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Lawrence Subject: Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:14:37 -0700 Message-ID: <87k4ktbx0i.fsf@berkeley.edu> References: <87sjzibe53.fsf@berkeley.edu> <26AC1DD2-BF5D-4D61-930D-50B2D9DF7A5C@nf.mpg.de> <87oca6npay.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8960B016-ABE0-4D82-84BB-2CE4BA1E9D82@nf.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39897 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDqGs-0007Zm-TZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:13:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDqGT-0006MS-IC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:13:26 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDqGT-0006Ke-A5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:13:25 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDqGR-0003DS-8t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:13:23 +0100 Received: from c-67-164-33-170.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.164.33.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:13:23 +0100 Received: from richard.lawrence by c-67-164-33-170.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:13:23 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Thanks to all for your suggestions! >>> you could define some shortcut to insert the appropriate Unicode >>> character into your text (as your keyboard probably does not feature >>> a "ö" key), or copy/paste the Umlauts from another Emacs file as >>> necessary. >>> But there is a nice emacs solution to enter umlauts: >>> =C-x RET C-\ german-postfix RET= This enables an input method which >>> allows you to enter all german umlauts: ä ü ö Ä Ü Ö and ß. >> Even better, for the OP, is to switch to the tex input method (M-x >> set-input-method RET tex RET)! In this case, you can type \"o to get ö. >> Almost all TeX and LaTeX sequences are understood (e.g. \forall to get >> ∀, \exists for ∃, \alpha for α, \leftrightharpoons for ⇋, and so on.) >> You can see all the characters with =describe-input-method=. One concern I have with all of these solutions is that, if I use them in a file that is encoded in ASCII, Emacs will switch the encoding to Unicode, and that could have unexpected consequences (e.g., with version control). But I have also noticed that many of my Org files (though not the one I originally encountered this problem in) are already encoded in UTF-8, and I haven't had any Unicode-related problems. Are these fears misplaced? Best, Richard