From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Umlauts in LaTeX export Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4063.1288872079@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87sjzibe53.fsf@berkeley.edu> <26AC1DD2-BF5D-4D61-930D-50B2D9DF7A5C@nf.mpg.de> <21363.1288842714@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87mxppfieu.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48920 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDyVg-0006xB-0o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDyVe-0000eK-GW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:39 -0400 Received: from vms173003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.3]:46462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDyVe-0000e8-AD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:38 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173003.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LBD0086A0276J00@vms173003.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:01:24 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Eric S Fraga of "Thu\, 04 Nov 2010 11\:16\:25 -0000." <87mxppfieu.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: Eric S Fraga Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode mailing list , Richard Lawrence Eric S Fraga wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: >=20 > [...] >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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): >=20 > # -*- coding: iso-8859-1; -*- >=20 > * Introduction >=20 > This text includes a number of characters from Espa=C3=B1a because we want > to say /cig=C3=BCe=C3=B1a/ instead of /swan/. >=20 > This exports just fine to latex and org automatically includes the line: >=20 > : \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} >=20 > I've attached the org file in case anybody wants to play with this very > small example. >=20 >=20 Ah, thanks: I forgot how smart org is. Nick