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From: | yota moteuchi |
Subject: | Re: problems with german umlauts |
Date: | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:37:30 -0500 |
You are mistaken. ASCII only defines character codes up to 127, see for
example http://www.asciitable.com/.
What your table shows is probably Latin1 (ISO 8859-1).
/Mats
Quoting Jonathan Henkelman <address@hidden>:
> Mats Bengtsson <mats.bengtsson <at> ee.kth.se> writes:
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>
>
>> 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
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