problems with umlauts in emacs and latex

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#1

Hi,

I used to type umlauts and other keys (ä,ü,ö.æ,å,ø, etc) directly from
the keybord into emacs, and latex never complained about these letter,
as long as I used \usepackage{isolatin1}.

Today, I discovered that this does not work anymore, neither on my
laptop, nor on my workstation.

I absolutely have no clue where to look for the parameter that might
have changed. Perhaps someone has an idea?

thanks a lot in advance!!!

Volker

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#2

Hi Volker.

Check this out:
‘Linux.com :: Everything Linux and Open Source’
(http://tinyurl.com/6cza58)

I just a similar problem not too long ago.
It’s suggested that one of these might do the trick:

Code:

export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
export LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1

(if that resolves it, I think you put this in .bashrc, maybe someone
else can confirm, or they’ll spell it out in one of those links)

Otherwise, I had luck finding if there were any problems with my locale
settings–you’ll receive errors if there are faulty settings-- with the
following command:

Code:

perl -e “”

Here’s another site that looks useful (and mentions emacs specifically)
‘The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO: How to make other programs work
with non-ASCII chars’
(http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-12.html)

I just googled “emacs accents” and “emacs non-ASCII characters”

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#3

According to CTAN isolatin1 has been obsolete since 2006; so you need to
change your package.Have you tried latin1?

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#4

I made a mistake, Volker. I misread your post thinking you couldn’t
produce the accents any longer. Not sure if any of that will prove
helpful now.

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