[luatex] accented characters in plain luatex

[John Culleton]

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:56:46 am Bob Tennent wrote:
> I'm finding that accented characters (à, é, ä, etc.) in my documents
> produce
> 
> ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.
> 
> But the manual says
> 
>   All LuaTeX text input and output is considered to be Unicode text.
> 
> Is there a simple fix, apart from resorting to \`a, \'e, \:a, etc.?
> 
> Bob T.

I have a plain luatex file where I am indeed using \' and \` to get acute 
and grave accents. The font in use is the TeX version of Palladio. The file 
compiles but the accents don't appear in the pdf. In Gvim I set the 
fontencoding to 
:set fileencoding=utf-8
but that doesn't help, perhaps because I am using a traditional Type 1 font 
for my body font (I have a truetype script font for headings, hence luatex 
instead of pdftex.) 

I am open to all suggestions. I have only one word (American Indian name)
that uses accents in this file so I can do a mass change in Gvim if 
necessary. I suppose I could create a TeX implementation of the Truetype 
file and use plain pdftex.
 
 Linux Slackware 13.37.TeXlive 2010


 
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press

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