Re: [AUCTeX] input encoding, unicode, multi-byte with tex

[Ralf Angeli]

* Ed C. (2008-04-03) writes:

> I have a lot of characters (glyphs?)like:
>
> LONGĒ  ANTEĀ quam sīve ego, sīve tū, nātī essēmus (Latin with macrons, 
> in mule it is latin4) but I can't figure out how to make a pdf. Using:
>
> \usepackage[latin4]{inputenc}
>
> in the preamble generates a Latex error which I can't understand:
>
> ERROR: Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined

If you copy the sample text you provided a above into a buffer and
construct a minimal document sceleton around it I don't get such an
error.

This is the file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin4]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
LONGĒ  ANTEĀ quam sīve ego, sīve tū, nātī essēmus (Latin with macrons, 
in mule it is latin4) but I can't figure out how to make a pdf. Using:
\end{document}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And this is the output buffer:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Running `LaTeX' on `next-error-test2' with ``pdflatex  -interaction=nonstopmode 
"\pdfoutput=0 " "\input" next-error-test2.tex''
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, 
nohyphenation, german, ngerman, loaded.
(./next-error-test2.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/latin4.def)) (./next-error-test2.aux)
[1] (./next-error-test2.aux)

 *File List*
 article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
inputenc.sty    2006/05/05 v1.1b Input encoding file
  latin4.def    2006/05/05 v1.1b Input encoding file
 ***********

 )
Output written on next-error-test2.dvi (1 page, 464 bytes).
Transcript written on next-error-test2.log.

LaTeX finished at Thu Apr  3 19:57:30
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> --- TeX said ---
> (inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin4'.
>
> See the inputenc package Hdocumentation for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.

This looks like a parsing error by AUCTeX.  It would be nice if you
could provide a complete example for reproducing the error.  Like this
we could find the parser bug.

> Capital H <ret> in the *Message buffer doesn't seem to do anything.

Are you running LaTeX in interactive mode?

-- 
Ralf