On 02 Aug 2014, at 18:58, Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding the text encodings understood by mkii and mkiv, one can always use
> UTF-8 in both.
> Unless you have some very uncommon characters in your ascii file, the
> migration from ascii to utf-8 is quite easy, at least on a Mac (I don’t know
> what OS you are using): for instance you can open the file in an application
> such as Smultron or Fraise
> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33751/fraise
> and then in the « Text » menu choose « Text encoding » and then « UTF-8 ».
> After that you save your file: now it is in UTF-8 encoding and can be typeset
> in mkiv, as far as the commands you use in your TeX file is compatible with
> mkiv.
The problem is not so much the Mac, but the old editor I use there.
G
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