30 Jun
2008
30 Jun
'08
10:16 a.m.
Hello,
In recent versions of Latex it is not a problem to handle the UTF8
encoding, especially for PDFs. Usually the following command should be
enough:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
There is also an option for hyperref to write unicode chars into the
pdf: \usepackage [pdftex, unicode]{hyperref}
After that the issue is the correct font with unicode support. One could
use the Bitstream font from Netscape. For all european and us characters
the standard fonts will be just good enough. It gets difficult if you
wan't to typeset Asian (CJK) or Arabian text alongside european special
chars (like german Umlauts).
Manuals for that can be found here:
(eng) http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/aslaksen/
(german) http://www.jawiki.de/wiki/display/WAD/MikTex
Maybe it helps a bit.
greetings
Jonas
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Hello,
have you cared somehow for all the very many encoding issues that can
arise using TeX?
Basically, you'd want UTF-8 to be eaten by pdftex but I haven't seen it
here (this is far more important than one considers).
Also I haven't seen escapes for all the math-specific characters, in
particular "_" and "^" which both, in tex's nonstopmode, force an
entry
in math-mode.