Re: How to ä,ö,ü

Joh-Tob Schäg <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:58:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <CAMR5GCx278oHoYYkcLQ4optkLM_e91cQ0OhKWYospWcbS4ZOHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you. Do anybody intend to make lout UFT-8 compatible?
Am 11.11.2015 22:50 schrieb "Martin Michel" <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
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> there is no need for workarounds
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> > When my File contains a Ä or similar it renders a strange glyph which is
> not selectable.
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> Your file was UTF-8 encoded, Lout is not capable of Unicode, just ISO
> 8859-1
> (Latin1).
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> > Is there an more elegant (read short) way to handle such letter?
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> Just convert your Lout source to Latin-1 and you are done:
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> recode utf8..latin1 file.lout
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> (or use the iconv tool or any good text editor to do the conversion)
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> -Martin
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