[texhax] Problem with French composition
Axel E. Retif
axel.retif at mac.com
Tue Aug 25 07:46:37 CEST 2009
On 24 Aug, 2009, at 20:56, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 24 August 2009 Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> Unlike William, though, I would advise you to use utf8 as the input
>> encoding [``Unicode (UTF-8)'' in TeXShop preferences, ``
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} '' in your LaTeX preamble]. To start
>> with,
>> Mac OS X uses UTF-8 as the default encoding, and so does Linux and, I
>> think, recent Windows.
>
> No, Windows still uses the funny "code pages".
I see. I've found this in Wikipedia
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_code_page ):
> Since the late 1990s, software and systems are increasingly adopting
> more direct encodings of Unicode, in particular UTF-8 and UTF-16
> [...] Recent Microsoft products and application program interfaces
> use Unicode internally, but many applications and APIs continue to
> use the default encoding of the computer's locale when reading and
> writing text data to files or standard output. Therefore, though
> Unicode is the accepted standard, there is still backwards
> compatibility with the older Windows code pages.
Anyway, I think UTF-8 is the best encoding to use. Recent
multiplatform (La)TeX editors (Linux, Mac, Windows), as TeXworks and
TeXmaker, use UTF-8 as default encoding, and so, I believe, recent
versions of Kile and Emacs 23.
Best,
Axel
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