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In article <376D2A8E.4AFE99A8@drfc.cad.cea.fr>, "Seak, Teng-Fong"
<seak@drfc.cad.cea.fr> wrote:

>      Lo and behold!  I just found that we can type Latin-1 letters
> directly in LaTeX files!  Maybe this isn't a big discovery for many of
> you, but it is for me.  Few years ago, when my teacher first taught me
> how to write in LaTeX, I was told to use \'e to write �, \`a for �, etc,
> 
> when I wanted to write in French.  This really won't make LaTeX source
> files very readable.  Something like
> 
> La g\'en\'enralisation du th\'eor\`eme de Pythagore \'ecrite en
> fran\,cais
> 
> isn't easy to be understood immediately as
> 
> La g�n�ralisation du th�or�me de Pythagore �crite en fran�ais
> 
>      Later on, I looked for other references and tutorials, esp on the
> Internet, but nothing was said about ISO-8859-1 support in LaTeX.  Some
> even suggest to use \'{e} for �.  Yurrkk!!  What a horror!!
> 
>      Lately, I'm using LyX to write documents.  By curiosity, I export a
> 
> LyX file as a LaTeX file and read its content.  I found that accented
> characters like �, �, � are all written "as is" without using \'e, \"y
> or \^o.  I then tried to compile it and everything was perfect!
> 
>      Now my first question is: Is Latin-1 supported in LaTeX by
> defaults?


> 
>      I asked so because nowhere it's witten ISO 8859-1 (or Latin-1) in
> my exported LaTeX file.  Furthermore, I suppose that for those using
> other char-sets, eg Latin-2 or under a Mac, when they compile their
> LaTeX file containing non-ASCII characters, I think they won't get what
> they wanted.  Isn't it?

\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}

will allow you to use � instead of \`a when typed on a system that uses
the ansi character set. However, � may not look like � in the .tex file
when taken to a non-ansi system. The typeset output should come out
correctly thopugh.

Other values for the inputenc package include latin1, latin2, applemac, etc.


> 
>      My next and last question is: Is there any plan to support Unicode
> in LaTeX?  People like me use a lot of Greek letters and some Hebrew
> letters as symbols.  I really find it easier to read a real "alpha"
> letter than \alpha.
> 

look at the Omega project http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/omega/

Ujwal