Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Esperanto and Russian

[usr345]

I wanted to typeset the song in Esperanto and it's translation in Russian. But LaTeX doesn't understand the accented Esperanto characters. Though, the text is saved in utf-8, LaTeX refuses to compile. So I have to use \^ sign, which is quite uncomfortable.

This minimal example with special Esperanto characters is not compiled:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[cm]{fullpage}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[esperanto,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
ĈĉĜĝĤĥĴĵŜŝŬŭ
\end{document}

This works:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[cm]{fullpage}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[esperanto,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\^C\^c\^G\^g\^H\^h\^J\^j\^S\^s\u{U}\u{u}
\end{document}

But look, how ugly it is.

Also is it possible to move the '^' symbol a little upwards? Cause it almost merges with small 'c' and 'g'. Is there such font or something?

[bro]

There are three ways to input esperantic letters:
Tex Style:

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\^Ce\^ha \^sa\u umman\^ga\^{\j}o

Deadkey style:

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^Ce^ha ^sa\u umman^ga^jo

8-bit Latin-3 characters:

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^e^a ^a ̆mman^a^o

[third way requires Esperanto localization of the editor used]
http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~texmf/in ... readme.pdf

[usr345]

third way requires Esperanto localization of the editor used

I use Emacs. It must support all the charsets.

[Drkazmer]

What about T1 fontenc and latin2 inputenc?