Article:		LaTeX: It's Not Just for Academia, Part 1
Subject:		unicode?
Date:		2004-02-03 18:37:12
From:		qazxsw
Text based is nice, but what about unicode support? I'd like to find a replacement for Word, since it's Japanese language support is so poor.

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• unicode?
  2004-02-04 09:00:35  luckyluke666 [View]
  
  
  With the right set of packages and fonts, LaTeX can handle Japanese quite well. The quite lengthy procedure is explained here: http://www.ece.uci.edu/~chou/unicode-tex.html. I have followed the instruction and made it work on my installation of teTeX, to the delight of my girlfriend. You may want to use TeXShop and set it up to save your files in UTF8 format.

• unicode?
  2004-02-04 08:51:03  bkerstetter [View]
  
  
  Omega may offer some hope for unicode. Don't have used it. It just use the quaint way in TeX: \'a to get á
  
  http://omega.enstb.org/

• unicode?
  2004-02-04 03:23:27  otto [View]
  
  
  Sorry to say, but LaTeX's unicode support stinks. I know, you can get it to work with anything, but it doesn't Just Work (the reason is probably that unicode wasn't yet invented when Knuth wrote TeX). There's a next generation LaTeX project called Omega, that aims to support unicode, but it's been going on for years without any visible progress whatsoever.
  

  
  Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX and use it for most anything, but it is tedious to write and definitely has its shortcomings.

• unicode?
  2007-05-30 21:38:36  Vocaro [View]
  
  
  Actually, I figured out how you can use Unicode in LaTeX quite easily.
  
  1) Using Fink, install the unicode-tex package
  2) Add the following line at the top of your document:
  \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
  
  With that simple change, you can insert non-ASCII characters (such as accents and umlauts) directly into your document without having to use LaTeX's clumsy escape mechanism.