Re: [AUCTeX] Conversion of accented chars to TeX ASCII form

[David Kastrup]

Masayuki Ataka <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Christophe TROESTLER <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] Conversion of accented chars to TeX ASCII form
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:27:55 +0200 (CEST)
>
>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Christophe Troestler <address@hidden> writes:
>> > 
>> > > translated to TeX ASCII representation automatically (i.e. I type
>> > > and see "é" but it is saved as "\'e").  However X-Symbol seems not
>> > 
>> > What's wrong with something like
>> > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>> > or
>> > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>> > ?
>> 
>> I am a bit concerned with portability to other platforms for people
>> who do not use an editor as good as Emacs! (but maybe I am overly
>> worried?)
>> 
> iso-cvt.el converts 8 bit chars into TeX sequences.
> So, use inputenc when you write, and convert them
> before you give your TeX source file to others ;)
>
> # iso-cvt.el is default package of GNU Emacs!

In contrast to the last X-Symbol versions, it uses suboptimal
transliterations and does not cooperate with preview-latex.

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