[OS X TeX] Character encoding in Excalibur

[Themis Matsoukas]

On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> As far as I can tell Excalibur doesn't ``understand'' anything but ascii or, at the most, MacOSRoman.

I was afraid so.

> It appears that cocoAspell works fine for the file; i.e., it treats Erdős as a single word---and spelling error since it's a Proper Name and not in the dictionary I use..

I am not a fun of cocoAspell…  

For the time being I’m getting around this problem with a custom command \DontSpellCheckThis{} that I can ask excalibur to ignore.

Themis