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Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?
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Markus Kuhn |
Subject: |
Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ? |
Date: |
1 Jul 2005 08:00:10 GMT |
Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
|> > I changed
|> > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
|> > to
|> > \usepackage{ucs}
|> > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
|> > in the preamble, loaded each file, set Emacs to save in UTF8, and
|> > re-saved each file. It worked like magic.
As long as you use only a ISO 8859 subset of Unicode, using the
complete ucs package is overkill. A simple
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
will suffice instead on any recent LaTeX installation (e.g., tetex-3.0)
to handle UTF-8 input files. (By the way, it is UTF-8, not UTF8).
Markus
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