>>>>> "Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jean-Marc> Adrien sent this message directly to me, but I guess it
Jean-Marc> will interest Lars too.
And I even answer to it.
>> Does this mean that french should only use latin9? What about
>> systems which do not support it? Does it work well with ispell
>> (does the french dictionary support latin9)?
Adrien> If you don't care about the \oe{} and the euro symbol, you
Adrien> can use latin1 as well, it is kept as the french default
Adrien> encodings in the lib/languages file. It only binds the
Adrien> AltGr-² key with the \oe{} instead of the logical not
Adrien> symbol, and the currency (either AltGr-e or AltGr-$
Adrien> depending on your X keyboard) with the euro.
That's fine.
Adrien> Systems which do not support latin9 do not care. Neither
Adrien> does ispell, who will only gag when he finds an \oe{},
Adrien> which he would do with latin1 anyway.
Adrien> The worst thing which can happen to you with those files is
Adrien> to select the encoding latin9 in the Format->Document
Adrien> window, without having a latin9.def file for inputenc,
Adrien> because LaTeX will give you an error.
OK.
Adrien> On the other hand, I have one big problem : with the latest
Adrien> CVS version, presumably since the latest encoding patch, my
Adrien> dead keys are broken, and the keymap files do not help any
Adrien> more. Maybe I have not understood the way to use it, but I
Adrien> can't display, for example, an e circunflex. The .kmap
Adrien> files in my patch do not work either, whereas they did with
Adrien> 1.1.6.
Have you tried latest cvs?
JMarc