Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf

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On Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 at 9:37 PM, Joost Kremers 
<joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:


> On Wed, Aug 31 2022, wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
> editor wrote:
> 
> > Have been writing a tex document on emacs utilising UTF-8.
> > 
> > Then using pdflatex to make the pdf. But pdflatex is reporting that unicode
> > character ħ (U+0127) is not set up for use with LaTeX.
> > 
> > What Gnu program could I use that is UTF-8 aware? I know this has nothing 
> > to do
> > with emacs,
> > but I do not know any latex gnu program that can make pdf from latex and to
> > which I can send
> > this description to an appropriate mailing list.
> 
> 
> Use xelatex or lualatex if you have utf-8 encoded input files. They are two
> alternative TeX engines that are normally included in every TeX distribution.
> 
> If you use AUCTeX (which you should), set the TeX engine to use with the
> variable `TeX-engine`.
 
I did not have AUCTeX installed.  Now I have installed it from my package 
manager.
What do I have to de from the emacs front?  Will I need some settings to allow 
use
of some auctex functionality?