inputenc-package: using other source encodings, 8-bit or UTF-8 (partial)

It is possible to use another character set to write the L^ATEX-file in. Using a character set like latin1 makes it possible to enter accented characters like ë directly with ë instead of having to use \"e. For more information on the inputenc-package see the file ``inputenc.dvi'' which should be included in the L^ATEX-distribution.

Possible encodings (as mentioned in this dvi file) are: ascii, latin1, latin2, latin3, latin4, latin5, latin9, decmulti, cp850, cp852, cp437, cp437de, cp865, applemac, next, ansinew, cp1252, and cp1250. Some additional encodings in later versions are latin10, cp858, macce, and cp1257. In the newer L^ATEXversions it is also possible to use utf8. Support for that is included in the base system. Note that not all UTF-8 characters are included and an error will be given if a valid but not implemented character is encountered.

To use an encoding include \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} in your L^ATEX-source file. The helpfile mentions that the encoding can also be selected in the document with \inputencoding{latin1}.

Such a L^ATEX-file can be spellchecked with ispell -t -T latin1.

More information on latin1 can be found in the ISO-8859-1 National Character Set FAQ (http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/internationalization/iso-8859-1-charset.html).