[XeTeX] newbie umlaut problems

[Ross Moore]

Hi John,

On 16/11/2009, at 9:17 AM, John McChesney-Young wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Michael <zontalmike at hotmail.com>  
> wrote in part:
>
>  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...
>
> It works fine on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine with TeX Live 2008 installed
> and Gummi (http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/) as the editor, simply
> copying and pasting in the source code from the original inquiry.

Yes, but this means nothing because although the characters in
the email are in UTF8, we don't know whether or not this was the
case in the original LaTeX source. A change of encoding may
have happened when constructing the email.

>
> John
> -- 
> John McChesney-Young ** Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
> JMcCYoung~at~gmail.com ** http://twitter.com/jmccyoung


Cheers,

	Ross

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