I'm using WinEdt 6.0 and need to write German umlaute. Using XeLaTeX, i need to save the tex-file in utf-8 to have native support for this – does anyone know how to tweak WinEdt so that it saves in utf-8?
[Tex/LaTex] XeLaTeX, WinEdt 6.0 and UTF-8
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This was discussed end of october 2010 on the mailing list of miktex and winedt. In short: you must set the enviroment variable "BIBTEX" and you should add some dummy commands to the aux-file to trigger the biber run. I just made again some tests and it looks as if it is also a good idea to delete the aux-file before the texify run. The heuristic of texify can still fail sometimes. Before making the final document it is a good idea to delete all auxiliary files (or at least the bbl) to get a correct result.
I added this to my local MainMenu.ini in winedt:
MENU="User_Menu"
CAPTION="&My commands"
ITEM="pdfTeXify + biber"
CAPTION="pdfTeXify + biber"
IMAGE="TeXTeXify"
SAVE_INPUT=1
MACRO="DeleteFile('%N.aux');SetEnvVar('BIBTEX', 'biber.exe'); Exe('%b\Exec\TeX\PDFTeXify.edt');"
SHORTCUT="24664::Shift+Ctrl+X"
REQ_FILTER=:"%!M=TeX"|"%!M=TeX:STY"
And this is the document I compiled:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\bibliography{examples}
\makeatletter
\providecommand\bibstyle@faked{}
\providecommand\bibdata@faked{}
\AtBeginDocument{%
\immediate\write\@mainaux{\noexpand\bibstyle@faked}%
\immediate\write\@mainaux{\noexpand\bibdata@faked}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
abc
\cite{test1}
\cite{test2}
\cite{test3}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
I didn't make tests with include. (I actually never use texify so I don't care much about it.)
The link you are mentioning is for 8-bit engines like pdflatex, it will not work with xetex or luatex.
With xelatex + lualatex chars with unicode positions below 256 will work out of the box:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings,fontspec}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
öäü é è ß
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Things get more complicated if you want to use chars above 256. E.g. an € or the french "oe" or greek etc. In this case you will have to add them to the processing list of listings first and use extendedchars=true. Here an example which adds the euro and the french oe and Oe (the middle listings shows the problems without the extended definitions):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{listings}
\makeatletter
\lst@InputCatcodes
\def\lst@DefEC{%
\lst@CCECUse \lst@ProcessLetter
^^80^^81^^82^^83^^84^^85^^86^^87^^88^^89^^8a^^8b^^8c^^8d^^8e^^8f%
^^90^^91^^92^^93^^94^^95^^96^^97^^98^^99^^9a^^9b^^9c^^9d^^9e^^9f%
^^a0^^a1^^a2^^a3^^a4^^a5^^a6^^a7^^a8^^a9^^aa^^ab^^ac^^ad^^ae^^af%
^^b0^^b1^^b2^^b3^^b4^^b5^^b6^^b7^^b8^^b9^^ba^^bb^^bc^^bd^^be^^bf%
^^c0^^c1^^c2^^c3^^c4^^c5^^c6^^c7^^c8^^c9^^ca^^cb^^cc^^cd^^ce^^cf%
^^d0^^d1^^d2^^d3^^d4^^d5^^d6^^d7^^d8^^d9^^da^^db^^dc^^dd^^de^^df%
^^e0^^e1^^e2^^e3^^e4^^e5^^e6^^e7^^e8^^e9^^ea^^eb^^ec^^ed^^ee^^ef%
^^f0^^f1^^f2^^f3^^f4^^f5^^f6^^f7^^f8^^f9^^fa^^fb^^fc^^fd^^fe^^ff%
^^^^20ac^^^^0153^^^^0152% nouveau pour xetex
^^00}
\lst@RestoreCatcodes
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[extendedchars=true]%default je pense
bœuf BŒeuf a€e
Dès Noël où un zéphyr haï me
vêt de glaçons würmiens je
dîne d'exquis rôtis de bœuf
au kir à l'aÿ d'âge mûr \& cætera!
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{lstlisting}[extendedchars=false]
bœuf BŒeuf a€e
Dès Noël où un zéphyr haï me
vêt de glaçons würmiens je
dîne d'exquis rôtis de bœuf
au kir à l'aÿ d'âge mûr \& cætera!
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{lstlisting}[language=XML]
bœuf BŒeuf a€e
Dès Noël où un zéphyr haï me
vêt de glaçons würmiens je
dîne d'exquis rôtis de bœuf
au kir à l'aÿ d'âge mûr \& cætera!
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Output:
Best Answer
Winedt can handle utf8 if you need only chars from one codepage (e.g. if you are only using the chars from ansinew). For a new document you can set the encoding in documents settings, tab format. If you need to convert documents: There is a utf-8.tex in winedt 6/Samples/examples that explains the details.