[OS X TeX] Textencoding MacOS Roman vs UTF-8

Simon Spiegel simon at simifilm.ch
Mon Nov 22 14:11:52 EST 2004


On 22.11.2004, at 19:12, Juergen Fenn wrote:

> Stephan Hochhaus <stephan at yauh.de> writes:
>
>>> How do you manage with the utf-8 option in inputenc? Does it work
>>> reliably? I am asking because we have already recommended latin1 for
>>> Macintosh in l2tabu. At the same time we marked utf-8 as still
>>> somewhat experimental. Is this still correct on the Macintosh?
>>
>> It didn't support all unicode characters the last time I checked. I
>> had to use ucs.sty[1] in order to process all chars correctly.
>
> So ucs.sty works alright? It is sufficiently reliable?

I've been using UTF and ucs for the past half year without any 
problems, I haven't done any fancy cross platform stuff, but there 
weren't any problems.

Simon
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