Preparing a document in an alternate language

Chapter 11. Preparing a document in an alternate language

One of the powerful advantages of using Kile is the ability to read, convert and set the text to the encoding your document needs. This will allow your document the option of using non-standard letters and symbols. This is very handy because you can setting the encoding which allows the user to type and display specialized characters. An example of this would be if a user need to display or use the capabilities of their keyboard to type in Italian, they would set the encoding and be able to insert and display letters with accents on them. Selecting the encoding for your document can be done in two ways.

One way to set the encoding is to use the encoding menu drop-down box located at the bottom of the file view.

A second way to set the encoding for a document is to set the option when you use the wizard to create a new document.

There is also separate encoding for the LaTeX typesetting system. Traditionally, LaTeX only understands a very limited set of characters, so a user doesn't have the ability to use accented letters directly. To use accented letters, LaTeX created some syntax to be able to include an accented letter, which is \"e. There is a package to help users with this called inputenc and is included in the preamble using \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}, where the option argument is the encoding you would like to use. This tells LaTeX to translate all of the \"e's in your document to ë. Please consult the inputenc documents for more information on inputenc.



Ideally you would use a LaTeX version that understand UNICODE, however this is not available on most systems.

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