Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop replaces german ä, ö, ü

[Christian Burk]

Am 23.12.2006 um 19:19 schrieb Herbert Schulz:

>
> On Dec 23, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Christian Burk wrote:
>
>>
>> I also found the autocompletion.plist and had a lock at it. For  
>> what reason does these replacements (ä, ü, ö) exist in this file?
>
> Traditionally TeX assumed ascii encoding so accented characters  
> needed to be represented by macros (with arguments in some cases).  
> With the introduction of input encoding this isn't necessary (if  
> you tell TeX what the encoding is) but it is still a fairly  
> standard practice.
>
> Did you remove the auto-completions you didn't need?

No I did not. I only uncheckt the auto copletion option in the  
preferences.

Thanks for the explanation...
Christian
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