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Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ?
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Pitfalls of switching to {ucs} and [utf8x]{inputenc} ? |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:44:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Adam Funk" <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:
> Until now I've always edited my LaTeX documents with Emacs using the
> ISO-Latin-1 encoding. Recently I needed to put the "" (z with an
> inverted circumflex, in case that doesn't show up correctly) in a
> BibTeX entry so I decided to try switching the document (not very big
> or complicated) to UTF8.
>
> 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.
>
> But before I do this to my thesis, I'd like to know if it's really that
> simple or if there are any pitfalls? If it matters, my thesis contains
> a lot of occurrences of Swedish special characters in \text{...}
> commands in math mode.
Not at all. Before you do this on your thesis, you want to learn
about the command cp(1).
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