Hello Rainer,Since I don't know the umlaut package I can't answer that question. I assume the umlaut (without trailing "e") package had offered the direct input of the German Umlaute for ISO8859-1 encoding only, so no options were required.
After a quick search in the WWW I found an umlaut.sty, I doubt that this was the original file, but it shows that the above assumption seems to be correct:
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/umlaute/umlaut.sty?revision=1424&view=markup&pathrev=2151The umlaute (with trailing "e") package is a different package and was written by me in 1994 and had supported 6 different encodings, so an option was needed to select an encoding, even in version 1.0 of the package. When I wrote that package I wasn't aware of an umlaut package, otherwise I would have named it differently and/or used iso8859-1 as default encoding (without needing an option) to avoid confusion. Well, it's 14 years too late for that ;-)
HTH, Axel At 22:10 09.01.2008 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Hi Axel, thanks for the quick reply. It seems that it was an unfortunate coincidence that I migrated from - umlaut.sty to inputenc.sty and - from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 through the migration from Debian etch to Debian lenny. Seems that this will affect mainly Debian users, when Debian lenny becomes the next stable Debian version. What I do not yet understand is why the umlaut.sty did not require any parameter, but the inputenc needs utf8. Had umlaut.sty a default which was a good match for me or is inputenc missing a system setting? Rainer