Re: umlaute not supported any more(?)

[Axel Sommerfeldt <caption@sommerfee.de>]

It's easy to detect the encoding by itself if you only have to 
distinguish between isolatin1, UTF8, and Unicode. But since TeX runs 
on many platforms, and the TeX files should be able to compile on 
other platforms as well (so for example I could easily translate my 
thesis with HP Roman8 encoding on my PC), it has to handle many more 
encodings. A guess would not be a proper solution here. And I doubt 
that Emacs will show the right German sz when I load one of my old Atari ST files.

BTW: If you are interested in an automatic detection of the given 
encoding in LaTeX, give

  \usepackage{selinput}
  \SelectInputMappings{adieresis={ä},germandbls={ß}}

a try.

Axel


At 11:42 10.01.2008 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 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