-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Stephan Tassart wrote: >> dpkg -l latex babel >ii latex 2e-7 >ii babel 3.6-4 Please remove the old TeX packages and go with the debianized tetex, now in debian-1.3
However you do not need to do this. The real fix (working with the old packages too) is: > >But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é, >ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). Is >it a misconfiguration from the Debian distribution or a problem which >comes from initex (and in that case, why having compiled a 7-bit >initex instead of a 8-bit?) Neiter. You forgot to say \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} in the LaTeX preample (between \documentclass{article} and \begin{document}) Nils - -- \ / | Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \ | 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM6GplFptA0IhBm0NAQHZZAMAtLzyRAKL8VZ5yD/uSEwfnYYJ9m2dipj7 QIgKPyoutkGPOUuCw6a2IkYS5/KE60nNCKoZbEJkhDsPiC2IRe1FSaPwAKUzWVpO LKnQ6PdtDvw66jzMr4vmqSO5EXOGeE6f =Ujfo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .