I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "é" is "<8e>", "à" is "<88>" etc... Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv:
iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac
But it is a little tedious to work like this...
Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops works fine with
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones (nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this encoding. But may be it is a configuration problem ?
Any idea ?
Thanks
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac
But it is a little tedious to work like this...
Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops works fine with
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones (nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this encoding. But may be it is a configuration problem ?
Any idea ?
Use UTF-8 on all platforms.
Most ediors on the Mac, among them the predominant LaTeX editor for Mac OS X, TeXshop, can (and should) be set to use UTF-8 as the default encoding, and if exchanging textual data between platforms is an issue, UTF-8 (or -16) is the only sensible solution.
Opening files with language specific characters such as German Umlauts in Linux is no problem if the files have been encoded as UTC-8 and UTF-8 is set as the locale on Linux.
Cheers,
Peter.
Am 26.09.2014 um 15:13 schrieb Patrick Bégou Patrick.Begou@legi.grenoble-inp.fr:
I'm working with some people using apple laptops. When we share text files (latex files), I reach in an encoding problem on our CentOS laptops and desktops. In my favorite editor, "é" is "<8e>", "à" is "<88>" etc... Of course, I can change the encoding with iconv:
iconv -f MACINTOSH -t ISO8859-15 file.bib.mac >file.bib iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t MACINTOSH file.bib >file.bib.mac
But it is a little tedious to work like this...
Runing pdflatex (in CentOS) on these files written on apple laptops works fine with
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
So the main problem is an editor problem. I've tried several ones (nedit, gedit, kate, vim...) none of them seams to support this encoding. But may be it is a configuration problem ?
Any idea ?
what about negotiating a _common_ encoding (e.g. utf8, latin1) for all? Its trivial for the "apple laptops" users.
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