Re: Latex and utf8
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:25 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
>
> As far as i know,
>
> \usepackage{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>
> supports more unicode than the older utf8. i dont know if this works
> for Korean (probably not)
According to page 23 of /usr/share/doc/latex-ucs-doc/languages.ps.gz
Korean should be possbile, too.
BTW, the code used with the 'utf8' option is actually newer than the one
used with 'utf8x'. First, Dominique Unruh implemeted ucs.sty and
utf8.def, hence one had to use the imputenc option 'utf8' togther with
ucs.sty. Then, the LaTeX team desided that it would be good if LaTeX
supported UTF-8 out of the box at least for some parts of unicode. At
that point it was decided that the 'official' code from the LaTeX team
(which is more robust than ucs.sty) should use the option 'utf8', so
Dominique now uses 'utf8x'. Quite complicated ...
Another BTW, anybody who uses Sarge and has installed latex-ucs and
teTeX 3.0 might want to remove the link utf8.def -> utf8x.def in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/. That link was ok while there was no
utf8.def in teTeX, but now it hides the official one. This is fixed in
Etch/Sid (#349274).
cheerio
ralf
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