UTF-8 support in Latex (was: Tool for document management)

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 17:37:52 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote:

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> Some years ago I changed from LyX to OpenOffice. These days I tried to 
> change back. One of the reasons was that there is no grep possible in OO. 

I believe that the common desktop search tools can search and index
OASIS documents. I know that it works with namazu, which I use, and I
would expect that it works as well with beagle et al.

> Alas, Texlive and therefore LyX, too, seem not to allow UTF-8, which by now 
> has become an absolute necessity for me.

Do you mean support for UTF-8 encoded characters in the input text? That
can be achieved by putting

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

into the preamble of the document.

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