Re: Converting German Umlauts to LaTeX

[Christian Herenz]

Daniel Rubin schrieb:
>
> Silly me, not thinking of that before:
> Why don't you use IO-8859-1 encoding instead of UTF-8?  It has all the
> umlauts (but lacks the Euro sign, though).
>
> ----Daniel
>

Hi Daniel,
thanks for your Tip? But isn't the file saved as UTF-8 encoded on an
UTF-8 system. Because all the umlauts are not directly shown on machines
at the instute, they have the old-stable debian (not etch) running
there, at home I have bleeding edge openSUSE.


I also got another hint, which was not forwarded to this list, but I
think this is just a more deep explanation of what you meant:

It should be enough to convert in UTF-8 all „ “ and ‚ ‘ into
\g[rl]q[q]{} and to change the line
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
into
    \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
and then save the file in ISO 8859-15/ISO Latin 9 encoding:
    C-x RET c iso-8859-15 RET C-x C-s

I will test this next week... If this would work, I think I will make a
macro (I have the book "Learning GNU Emacs", which is excellent) .

Thanks for your help!

Greetings,
Christian