which LaTeX packages for UTF-8 input encoding?

[Wilfried Hennings]

Hello all,
we are preparing a new release of the latex2rtf converter including
support for UTF-8 encoded LaTeX input.
(For the time being we will restrict ourselves to unidirectional
alphabets and the characters which are in the standard Microsoft Windows
fonts.)

Somehow the converter has to recognize the input encoding of the LaTeX
file. Up to now it does this by checking the
\usepackage[...]{inputenc}
command.
AFAIK there is no
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
option (correct me if I'm wrong), so

-> we need to know which packages YOU use to support UTF-8 input.

Please reply here (in the newsgroup) or to wh_ng(at)gmx(dot)de.

Regards, Wilfried

[Adrian Nievergelt]

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

Greetz
Adrian

[Jörn Kobes]

Adrian Nievergelt schrieb:

> Wilfried Hennings wrote:
>> Hello all,

>> -> we need to know which packages YOU use to support UTF-8 input.

>>
>> Please reply here (in the newsgroup) or to wh_ng(at)gmx(dot)de.
>>
>> Regards, Wilfried
>
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>
> Greetz
> Adrian

I prefer:
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8,utf8x]{inputenc}

for Win 2k, XP and MikTex 2.5 and greater. [utf8,utf8x] for file
changing in Linux (K)Ubuntu and the Win-World.

Greetings
Jörn

[Wilfried Hennings]

Jörn Kobes <joern...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Adrian Nievergelt schrieb:
> > Wilfried Hennings wrote:
> >>
> >> -> we need to know which packages YOU use to support UTF-8 input.
> >

> > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

> >
>
> I prefer:
> \usepackage{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8,utf8x]{inputenc}
>
> for Win 2k, XP and MikTex 2.5 and greater. [utf8,utf8x] for file
> changing in Linux (K)Ubuntu and the Win-World.

Thank you, with these packages nearly all characters which are defined
in the standard MS Windows fonts are also output by LaTeX.

If you are interested in my test file, you can get it from

http://latex2rtf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/latex2rtf/trunk/test/enc_utf8x.tex?revision=605

(The test file doesn't yet include Hebrew and Arab letters because Word
behaves strange as soon as I start entering these letters, and I hadn't
yet time to figure out what is wrong.)

Have a nice weekend!

[Robin Fairbairns]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Kobes?= <joern...@gmx.de> writes:
>Adrian Nievergelt schrieb:
>> Wilfried Hennings wrote:
>>> -> we need to know which packages YOU use to support UTF-8 input.
>>

>> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

>
>I prefer:
>\usepackage{ucs}
>\usepackage[utf8,utf8x]{inputenc}
>
>for Win 2k, XP and MikTex 2.5 and greater. [utf8,utf8x] for file
>changing in Linux (K)Ubuntu and the Win-World.

to be precise,

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % for input that can be represented in
% standard-latex-encoded fonts -- t1,
% t2*, etc
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % for input using other fonts for
% output, notably lgr, but lots of
% others too

for wilfried's purposes i would think that simply recognising utf8 and
utf8x options for inputenc would be enough.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

rf...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:

> to be precise,
>
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % for input that can be represented in
> % standard-latex-encoded fonts -- t1,
> % t2*, etc
> \usepackage{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % for input using other fonts for
> % output, notably lgr, but lots of
> % others too

What if that is not enough, and some very exotic chars are needed? Is it
time to use Omega and Lambda?

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S teki. S teki. S teki. M wo setsudan. S teki. S teki. Puratonikku wo
hajimemashou." Dir en grey

[Robin Fairbairns]

Juhapekka Tolvanen <SNAFU....@iki.fi.FUBAR.invalid> writes:
>rf...@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>> to be precise,
>>
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % for input that can be represented in
>> % standard-latex-encoded fonts -- t1,
>> % t2*, etc
>> \usepackage{ucs}
>> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % for input using other fonts for
>> % output, notably lgr, but lots of
>> % others too
>
>What if that is not enough, and some very exotic chars are needed? Is it
>time to use Omega and Lambda?

forget tex or omega (or even aleph), switch to xetex or wait for a
fully working luatex. that way, the restriction is what's in the
font, rather than what's dealt with by way of macros. (aiui...)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge