Re: problems with german umlauts

[Jonathan Henkelman]

Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson <at> ee.kth.se> writes:



> If you search the mailing list archives from the time before we introduced
> unicode support, you will be surprised how many questions there are related
> to Russian or Hebrew or Mandarin or ...
> 
>    /Mats

It wasn't intended to be a stupid question. I'm all over unicode for languages 
that use other character sets - cyrillic, hebrew, asian etc.  I was just 
surprised at how difficult it was to put an umlaut on a u for a german peice I 
was typesetting.

Perhaps the problem lies in the documentation.  It suggests that if you want 
to use "non-ascii" characters you have to save the document as unicode - fair 
enough. (In fact it implies you can use any 8-bit ascii pg. 112, last 
paragrph, PDF version 2.10.0)  But I wanted to use ascii 252 (presumably 
similar to David in the original post) and I just inserted it into my 
document - and it compiled to a space.  Here I am trying to use an ascii 
character and hence expect not to have to do anything special, but would I 
still have to save it as unicode?  When I used \char, I had to find the tweak 
to get rid of the spaces before and after that character...

> Because most accented European characters can not be accessed within 
ascii 

My ascii table shows all French, Norwegian, Danish characters as well as most 
spanish, and german (can't profess to be an expert there) see characters 191-
255 (xBF - xff).  Are these accessable in a non-unicode document?

Thanks,
J