[OS X TeX] DEVONthink Pro Office and TeX files

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:22 AM, RA Friedrich Vosberg <fv at meinrechtsanwalt.com> wrote:

> Morning.
> 
> I'm using DEVONthink Pro Office (DTPO) and TeXShop. But there is a problem with TeX files displayed in DTPO. German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) are hidden in TeX files. A word like »Büro« is shown as »Bro«. But there is anything invisible between the B and the r, because when I switch the position of the insertion point with the arrow keys, I must enter the arrow key twice to step from the position after the B to the position after the r. Another display failure occurs with the German sharp S (ß). DTPO replaces the sharp S by the section symbol (§).
> 
> How can I avoid these »replacements«?
> 
> Kind regards, Friedrich
> 

Howdy,

What input encoding are you using in your file? Plain ASCII doesn't have the accented characters as part of the font. I don't know anything about DTPO but I suspect you'll have to change the encoding it uses to read the file and, possibly the display font.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)