Georg Baum wrote:
>>
>> ??
>> With latin9 you get a working \textdegree ...
>> and also some other symbols different to latin1
>
> Sure, \textdegree does not depend on the inputenc package.
??? \inputenc does nothing else than loading
the definition file ...
> What does not work with \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} (in TeXlive 2005) is
> a literal °. It does work with latin1. And this is stupid, because ° is
> contained in the latin9 encoding at the same position as in latin1: 0xb0.
sure, nobody did such a \DeclareTextCommand. But it is really easy
to do it yourself. This has nothing to do with inputenc as package.
Hebrert
