[XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX

A u akupadhyayula at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 22:27:34 CET 2012


I among windows user can you tell me a way to do in Linux or Mac OSX?

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On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/1/8 A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>:
>> I am trying to import text from Excel or CSV to Latex.
>> It works great when the text is in English. I am using exceltex to do that.
>> However when I put "Sanskrit" Text in the spreadsheet and import it to
>> excel, it bring only " ???" in place of the sanskrit text.
>> Is it possible to do?
>>
> Exceltex assumes Latin1 and thus can only work with western languages.
> You have to modify the script. Remove my $ENCODING = "latin1"; and
> insert use utf8; instead. I am not sure that it is enough, there are
> some tricks with encoding of the output files. There is some
> information in the manual but I am not a Windows user and do not have
> Excel so that I cannot try.
>
>> I would appreciate your help
>> regards
>>
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