Feature Suggestions ⇒ Replacement of german "umlauts"

[Gaussman]

It would be fine if TXC can replace the umlauts to the latex code. For example ü becomes \"{u}.

[localghost]

There is no reason to do that. The inputenc package allows to insert national characters directly in the source. Alternatives to that package are inputenx or selinput from the oberdiek bundle.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Gaussman,

welcome to the board!
inputenc mentioned by Thorsten combined with fontenc allows better hyphenation. For Windows latin1 or latin9 is recommended, you could use

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\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

If you don't use those packages, just \"{u}, the output will contain u and dots above instead of one ü character. That's a problem for hyphenation and possibly for copy&paste of text and the search feature of pdf readers.

But if you use T1 encoding make sure that a T1 encoded font is used, like Latin Modern for example. Or install the cm-super package to get the standard Computer Modern fonts with T1 encoding.

Stefan