[XeTeX] newbie umlaut problems

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

You're welcome.

What OS do you use? O wait, I see, Ubuntu. I am surprised that VIM was set not set to UTF-8. As far as I know, most linux distributions nowadays use UTF-8 by default, but then again, maybe I am wrong.

And hey, you have texlive 2009 installed. I am only at texlive 2008 - it's high time I change this :-)). 

Cheers,
Wilfred

--- On Wed, 18/11/09, Michael <zontalmike at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael <zontalmike at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] newbie umlaut problems
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 18 November, 2009, 5:56 AM
> You were all right- my input file was
> indeed latin1.  I was sure that it was UTF-8, but alas,
> I was wrong.  My editor is vim, and ":set encoding"
> returned 'utf-8', so I had checked that off early on. 
> But deleting all the tex commands from the file and running
> "file" on it showed that it was indeed "test.tex: ISO-8859
> text".  I read up on the vim help, and it turns out
> there is a more decisive variable in vim, ":set
> fileencoding", which was still set to latin1.  I set
> this to 'utf-8', and now it works :)
> 
> Oh well- in the process I now have TexLive 2009 installed.
> 
> Now I can really get started with XeTeX.  Thanks for
> all the prompt help.
> 
> -Michael
> 
> Joseph Wright wrote:
> > Michael wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I'm just starting out with xetex, and I'm
> struggling to get out of the blocks.  I'm having a
> problem getting German characters to appear correctly in my
> pdf.
> >> 
> >> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, I started out installing
> only the TexLive packages which sounded relevant, but since
> then I've installed the package "texlive-full", v
> 2007.dfsg.1-2.
> >> 
> >> Below, you can see my input file, the output from
> my command line when processing this, and an excerpt from
> the log file.  I chose Verdana for now just because
> "fc-list" lists it as one of the available fonts:  The
> output looks like the German characters got swallowed along
> with the 3 characters afte
em:
> >> 
> >> "Here are some German words: sch   
> f   t, M    sterreich, Spa  "
> >> 
> >> I'd appreciate any advice.
> >> 
> >> -Michael
> >> 
> >> 
> >> %% START FILE
> >> \title{My book}
> >> 
> >> \author{Me}
> >> 
> >> \documentclass{article}
> >> \usepackage{fontspec}
> >> \usepackage{xunicode}
> >> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> >> 
> >> \setmainfont{Verdana}
> >> 
> >> \begin{document}
> >> \section{Section One}
> >> 
> >> \subsection{ Sunday }
> >> \fontspec{Verdana}
> >> \par Here are some German words: schön, fährt,
> Müll, Österreich, Spaß.
> >> \end{document}
> >> %% END FILE
> > 
> > You did save the file in UTF8, I assume: which editor
> do you use? TeX Live 2007 contains a *very old* version of
> XeTeX. If you are prepared to install it outside of the
> Ubuntu package system, TeX Live 2009 was recently released
> with an up-to-date XeTeX.
> > -- Joseph Wright
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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