Fwd: [OS X TeX] Problems with iconv

[André Bellaïche]

Dear Herb, dear Peter,

Thank you for your help.

The source of the problem was a \lowercase command in some .sty file  
called by another .sty file called by the main file. I came across it  
when trying to make a reduced file to show to you.

In the old times, \lowercase could not handle diacritics, and I had  
helped it by using very raw TeX commands. Of course this construction  
was not stable enough to work well with latin1 and utf-8.

I have replaced \lowercase by \MakeLowercase, and everything runs.

André



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> De : Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> Date : 15 juin 2009 00:23:03 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Problems with iconv
> Répondre à : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu 
> >
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2009, at 4:29 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 14 juin 09 à 22:58, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 14, 2009, at 2:59 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 14 juin 09 à 19:34, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 14, 2009, at 12:14 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I use TeXShop with some mac-encoded file which was converted  
>>>>>> from latin1. This file typeset very well with  
>>>>>> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I convert it back using
>>>>>>
>>>>>> iconv -f MAC -t LATIN1 nchapitres.tex > nchapitreslatin1.tex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By typesetting  nchapitreslatin1.tex (with \usepackage[latin1] 
>>>>>> {inputenc}), I get the error :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 						! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is  
>>>>>> undefined
>>>>>> 						(inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin1'.
>>>>>> 						 ...
>>>>>> 						 l.369 \end{example}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is rather surprising, since the output of iconv is  
>>>>>> supposed to be made with latin1 characters.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I try UTF8 instead of LATIN1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> iconv -f MAC -t UTF8 nchapitres.tex > nchapitresutf8.tex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By typesetting  nchapitreslatin1.tex (with \usepackage[utf8] 
>>>>>> {inputenc}, and utf8 in the preferences of TeXShop), I get the  
>>>>>> error :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 						Overfull \hbox (3.11702pt too wide) in paragraph at lines  
>>>>>> 361--368
>>>>>> 						[...] .endexample |
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 						! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:„©l not set up  
>>>>>> for use with LaTeX.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Puzzling!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried to make the conversions uisng TextEdit, I got the same  
>>>>>> results.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> André
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>>
>>>>> How is it being read into TeXShop?
>>>>>
>>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>>
>>>>> Herb Schulz
>>>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>>
>>>> Like this:
>>>>
>>>> %!TEX TS-program = latex
>>>>
>>>> \documentclass[twoside]{book}
>>>>
>>>> \usepackage{textcomp}
>>>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>>>> \usepackage[french]{babel}
>>>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>>>> \usepackage{mathptmx}
>>>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>>>>
>>>> \begin{document}
>>>>
>>>> \input{nchapitresutf8.tex}
>>>>
>>>> \end{document}
>>>>
>>>> André
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> So TeXShop is going to open the file assuming the encoding is  
>>> whatever you set as the default in TeXShop->Preferences but all of  
>>> the text seems to be in nchapitresutf8.tex sos that should be ok.
>>>
>>> Are you sure the document nchapitresutf8.tex is, in fact utf-8?  
>>> Try opening it in TeXShop using the Cmd-O command and make sure  
>>> the encoding is set to utf-8 BEFORE opening it. Also, make no  
>>> changes to the document and certainly don't save it. Does  
>>> everything look ok? Is the document really UTF-8?
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>>
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> The default in TeXShop->Preferences is set to UTF-8.
>>
>> The document nchapitresutf8.tex is utf-8. When I try to open other  
>> documents, either in applemac or in latin1, a window opens, saying  
>> that the text could not be open with utf-8 encoding.
>>
>> Another way to check the encoding of the file is to use TextEdit,  
>> by setting the opening preferences nto applemac, latin1 and utf-8.  
>> TexShop is willing to open nchapitresutf8.tex whatever be the  
>> encoding, but it is only with the preference set to utf-8 that we  
>> get a text without fault.
>>
>> The main file has also been converted to utf-8, (by TextEdit).
>>
>> But I still get the error message
>>
>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:„©l not set up for use  
>> with LaTeX.
>>
>> (I am not sure that the console uses utf-8. It seems that the error  
>> message is set in latin1, and then displayed (without conversion)  
>> utf-8.)
>>
>> Thank for your help.
>>
>> A.B.
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Do you know what character it's choking on? It really may be true  
> that the times font used with mathptmx is missing a character. Try  
> using
>
> \usepackage{lmodern}
>
> instead of mathptmx and see what happens. Have you ever tried to use  
> xelatex?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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