Re: German characters in English locale

[Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@t-online.de>]

Dan H. wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>   
> > I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts 
> > using latex.
> >     
>
> Same here.
>
>   
> > The typical
> >
> > \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung
> > \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Windows
> > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> >
> >
> > does not work.
> >     
>
> Are you sure your input encoding is indeed "ansinew"? I'd bet it's
> UTF-8. Last time I checked TeX didn't support UTF-8 so I'm still using
> latin1 for TeX.
>
> --D.
>
>   
Thanks to all who replied. The following works perfectly:

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

cheers, Peter