Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> I had a look today what is missing: basically, entering and latexing €
> works with utf8, latin9 and cp1251 (also latin10 and others in theory, but
> they're not in the combo), provided that \usepackage{textcomp} is entered
> manually to the preamble.
>
> I tried to load that automatically (i.e. require it), but failed (I tried
> at simpleTeXSpecialChars in paragraph_pimpl with code point 0xa4, to no
> avail). Any pointer? I'm still lost in the new unicode universe.
That does not work. You need to require it in Paragraph::Pimpl::validate,
and you need to add textcomp to the simplefeatures list in
src/LaTeXFeatures.C. Both has nothing to do with unicode!
> I really think we should get that to work for 1.5 for image reasons, if
> possible.
I agree, especially since it is easy to do.
> (also, we should ponder changing the default encodings of the latin1
> languages to latin9. At least for German, that would make sense).
I agree, too.
Georg