Hi Nick, Nick Dokos wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+em...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> Avdi Grimm <gro...@inbox.avdi.org> writes: >> >> Nowadays with Unicode available ubiquitously we can simply use the >> correct typographical quotation marks directly in the plain text file, >> but TeX and some other legacy systems don't work very well with Unicode.
I really hate those "smart quotes", better named "dumb quotes", because: - I don't find them attractive at all, but that's personal, and could depend on font families, etc. - they're not correctly converted when playing with the coding system: from UTF-8 to Latin 1, for example. That's really nasty. I was/am planning to have a function for converting them on the fly when pasting... or when saving the Org buffer... or at any better moment. Though, I didn't get the right code to do so yet... > AFAIK, TeX works fine with UTF8, given the defaults that org-mode export uses. > What problems do you see? UTF-8 is correctly handled in LaTeX documents, but not in every environment: Listings has problems, even if a Listings exist for UTF-8, and so for many other environments. So I would say that UTF-8 usage is still not yet fully supported in TeX. Best regards, Seb -- Sébastien Vauban
