Re: How to ä,ö,ü

Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:51:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2015-11-11, 20:31 GMT, Joh-Tob Schäg wrote:
> i tried to write an report in german language.
> I used the command line
>
>> lout file.lout -o file.ps -e Bell.err
>>
> to do export my file.

What is the encoding of your source file? Remember, lout was 
created before Unicode was really fully present, so it works 
only with 8bit ISO-8859-* encodings. If your source file is (as 
I suppose it is) in UTF-8 you have to first convert it to 
iso-8859-1 via (if you are on Linux, or perhaps even Mac OS X?)

iconv -f utf8 -t iso-8859-1 file.lout file-iso.lout

and then process file-iso.lout file.

Best,

Matěj

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