Re: Encoding Emacs and Latex

[August Karlstrom]

On sön, 2005-03-13 at 01:03 +0800, Joerg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange problem. When I write in Emacs I can use special character
> like äöü, which are properly displayed. But if I run Latex I get instead of
> äöü other characters. Even if I open the tex-file in another editor I get
> the replaced characters. If I type äöü in the other editor and open the file
> in Emacs I get something like \344\366 etc.
> 
> Any idea what the problem is and where I have to look for a solution?

You give no info about encoding or TeX version (tetex, MikTeX). If you
use Unicode utf-8 (an `u' is shown to the left in the modeline), add the
line

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

to the preamble. If you use tetex you may have to install the `tetex-
unicode' package.

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August