Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export

From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:16:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxppfieu.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21363.1288842714@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> (Nick Dokos's message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:51:54 -0400")

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Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

[...]

> There are a couple of assumptions here (and in Eric F.'s mail about the
> TeX input method as well). One is that the buffer is encoded in UTF-8:
> if you use e.g iso-8859-1, you can use whatever input method you want,
> but you'll end up with a byte in your file that LaTeX won't like.

Umm, just to clarify something: the file can well be in iso-8859-1
encoding.  It need not be in UTF-8 if all you want are typical west
European characters (umlauts etc.).  For instance, the following file
contents work just fine (I've forced iso-8859-1 encoding although I use
UTF-8 more often than not):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1; -*-

* Introduction

This text includes a number of characters from España because we want
to say /cigüeña/ instead of /swan/.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This exports just fine to latex and org automatically includes the line:

: \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

I've attached the org file in case anybody wants to play with this very
small example.

[-- Attachment #2: iso-8859-1 encoded org file --]
[-- Type: text/org, Size: 162 bytes --]

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1; -*-

* Introduction

This text includes a number of characters from España because we want
to say /cigüeña/ instead of /swan/.

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