Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > Thomas S. Dye writes: >> I don't follow the details of this discussion, but I wonder how >> important AUTO really is? > > I'm afraid I can't follow you… > > AFAIK, specifying "AUTO" in the LaTeX header is supposed to be replaced > by whatever the coding system of the LaTeX buffer happens to be when it > gets saved. (I've never used it, so it might work differently.)
Yes, I believe the encoding is picked up from the Org buffer, but I might be wrong. > >> It seems to me that a sweet setup uses utf-8 in the buffer but exports >> latin-1 to LaTeX through use of entities and filters (with the new >> exporter). This can yield a buffer display that isn't complicated by >> all the LaTeX machinery, and export something that is maximally >> compatible in the LaTeX world. It is nice on the eyes and avoids >> encoding incompatibilities on the back-end. > > That is not what I was talking about, however useful it might be. I > have already defined the input encoding "utf8" in my LaTeX header and > want to ensure that the buffer gets saved in that format. As an > extension, if I specify any other encoding for LaTeX, the buffer should > be saved in a matching encoding, independently of the encoding that the > org buffer had. If that's a "downgrade", i.e. not all characters are > encodable in that new system, then what you describe above might become > necessary. Yes, that sounds useful. Thanks for the clarification. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
