On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:56:46 am Bob Tennent wrote: > I'm finding that accented characters (à, é, ä, etc.) in my documents > produce > > ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. > > But the manual says > > All LuaTeX text input and output is considered to be Unicode text. > > Is there a simple fix, apart from resorting to \`a, \'e, \:a, etc.? > > Bob T.
I have a plain luatex file where I am indeed using \' and \` to get acute and grave accents. The font in use is the TeX version of Palladio. The file compiles but the accents don't appear in the pdf. In Gvim I set the fontencoding to :set fileencoding=utf-8 but that doesn't help, perhaps because I am using a traditional Type 1 font for my body font (I have a truetype script font for headings, hence luatex instead of pdftex.) I am open to all suggestions. I have only one word (American Indian name) that uses accents in this file so I can do a mass change in Gvim if necessary. I suppose I could create a TeX implementation of the Truetype file and use plain pdftex. Linux Slackware 13.37.TeXlive 2010 -- John Culleton Wexford Press
