Re: umlaute not supported any more(?)

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Norbert,

thanks for the explanation.

What surprises me somewhat is that I do not use any other program which I have 
to tell the character encoding explicitly on my lenny system. E.g. emacs/kate 
etc. knew the character encoding by itself and displayed umlauts right away. 
It seems that they have at least sensible defaults. Do you know, how they 
figure them out?

Thanks,
Rainer

Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 22:48 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> On Mi, 09 Jan 2008, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > 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?
>
> umlaut expected latin1/9 input, while inputenc does not have a default.
> There is no default when you have about 30 charsets to choose from.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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