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[auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx]

Hello,

On Monday 04 February 2008, David Haller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Tex doesn't support unicode.
>
> Inputenc supports UTF-8 for quite a while now.

It only supports a subset of UTF-8, as Tex wasn't designed to support 16 bit 
fonts. It's a design limitation.

> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> You have to be careful though, there was a conflict of utf8.def
> between inputenc and ucs, IIRC.
>
> The TeX-FAQ should tell more.
>
> The following should work:
>
> ==== testutf8.tex =====
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \listfiles
> \begin{document}
> äöüß
> \end{document}
> ====
>
> pdflatex testutf8.tex
> xpdf testutf8.pdf
>
> If this does not work, you should mail the error message and the
> output of the listfiles command at the end of the log.

This does work. Probably even spanish accents work, so this may help Carlos. 
However, this doesn't mean that unicode is supported, which can be verified 
easily by typing the € (euro character) or characters of most other scripts 
in the world.

Best regards
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