Awesome. Thank you, Sebastien.
I prefer the second solution, because it allows me to account for different
kinds of spaces: espace fine, espace insécable, espace moyenne, etc.
Just for curiosity: I’m not sure what to make of the regexp. The ‘?’ is
normally a postfix operator used in conjunction with other characters, isn’t
it? As it is, it seems to target question marks instead of blank spaces. What
am I missing?
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> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:55:20 +0200
> From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-n...@mygooglest.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [O] utf8x and org-mode 8
> Message-ID: <86wq9xj95j....@somewhere.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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> Daniel Szmulewicz wrote:
>> I understand that org-latex derives the encoding from the buffer.
>> In the ".tex? file produced by the exporter, I see this line:
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>>
>> However, I would like to set it to:
>> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>>
>> I need to account for special French spacing characters: ?espaces
>> ins?cables."
>>
>> Old tricks to achieve this with previous org-mode versions don?t seem to
>> work.
>> What is the best way to export an org buffer and have it set to utf8x with
>> the latest org-mode version?
>
> AFAICT, when using the `utf8' option to `inputenc' (and not `utf8x'
> which should be avoided, as it uses `ucs' which is no longer
> maintained), we have 2 solutions to support the UTF-8 non-breaking
> space:
>
> - Convert it in Org mode, when exporting (via a filter)
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> ;; filter for non-breaking spaces
> (defun leuven--latex-filter-nbsp (text backend info)
> "Convert non-breaking spaces when exporting to LaTeX/Beamer."
> (when (memq backend '(latex beamer))
> (replace-regexp-in-string "?" "~" text)))
>
> (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-plain-text-functions
> 'leuven--latex-filter-nbsp)
> #+end_src
>
> - or Convert it in LaTeX:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no
> ;; convert `nbsp' to its LaTeX equivalent
> (add-to-list 'org-latex-packages-alist
> (concat "\\ifdefined\\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{"
> "\\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A0}{~}"
> "}\\fi") t)
> #+end_src
>
> I think that the first one is "better", though its problem is that,
> being done by a filter (hence, on the user-side), sharing an Org file is
> not easy anymore (without sharing the filter to be added to the
> personal .emacs file).
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
>
>
>
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Daniel Szmulewicz
daniel.szmulew...@gmail.com
