Hello, thanks, I had already tried that. This yields another problem. All accents etc are giving this: ! Improper alphabetic constant. <to be read again> \blank \utffouruniglph ...f@b *(`#2-\utf@g )+\utf@a *(`#3 -\utf@g )+`#4-\utf@g \relax } l.66 \blank[ 5cm] ... Using \enableregime[utf-16] gets rid of it but the inverted marks problem remains the same. ??? Pau 2009/2/18 Aditya Mahajan :

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Pau wrote:

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Hello,

I am trying to write a text in Castillian and I don't get the inverted exclamation symbol right. I am using

Add

\enableregime[utf-8]

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\language[es] \mainlanguage[es]

in the preamble and I also tried playing with utf without success. Instead of ¡ and ¿ I get an "a" with a cedilla and a pound symbol, respectively

Of course, I can use {!`} and {?`}, but I was wondering why I don't get these right using \language

I have done my homework and have googled, yahoo'ed and even clustied

Aditya

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 00:42, Pau wrote:

Can you please try this?

---------------------------------------- \language[es] \mainlanguage[es] \enableregime[utf-8] \starttext ¡Hola! ¿Me ves bien? \stoptext ----------------------------------------

It works perfectly here, but there's a difference between sending some file and copy-pasting its contents. Are you using latin1 ecoding by any chance? Try \enableregime[latin1] to see if it fixes the problem, but I would try to fix the editor instead and configure it to use utf-8. You'll have much less problems later.

Of course, I can use {!`} and {?`}, but I was wondering why I don't get these right using \language

No, you cannot/you shouldn't. As soon as you'll try to use those symbols in XeTeX, LuaTeX or with any other non-cmr font, you'll run into troubles. Btw: \language doesn't change anything in this respect. If you are using the right symbols, you should get them no matter what language you use. Mojca

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Pau wrote:

Can you please try this?

---------------------------------------- \language[es] \mainlanguage[es] \enableregime[utf-8] \starttext ¡Hola! ¿Me ves bien? \stoptext ----------------------------------------

Works fine over here Pau context.cmd spanish ( on Windows XP SP3 Home) This is luaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.3-2008122922 (spanish.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.01.18 14:39 MKIV fmt: 2009.2.2 int: english/english Alan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surprise, surprise ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Banker Logic: The More You Screw Up, The More You Get Paid... CEOs Caught Scheming On Tape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbE-y2Rx6I or http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f95_1234826309 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello, thanks to all of you for your answers. Yes, it seems to be an encoding problem. After using \enableregime[latin1] in the preamble, the characters are fixed, but I would like to understand the problem of the encoding. If I open the file with nvi or vim, I can "see" the characters displayed correctly in the terminal with the default encodings. Now, if I add this to my vimrc: set encoding=utf-8 set termencoding=utf-8 then I get strange symbols when writing, instead of the accents like á instead of á (now the question is what you see!) I will do a bit more of research, because I see a potential source of problems here... Thanks to all, Pau 2009/2/19 Taco Hoekwater :

Pau wrote:

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Can you please try this?

---------------------------------------- \language[es] \mainlanguage[es] \enableregime[utf-8] \starttext ¡Hola! ¿Me ves bien? \stoptext ----------------------------------------

Works fine here: ConTeXt ver: 2009.02.06 19:27, pdftex 1.49.9 as well as luatex trunk

Best wishes, Taco

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But, still, I seem to still need \enableregime[latin1] in the preamble. When I comment it out:

You need set fileencoding=utf-8 while editing the file (without an 's'). fileencodings in the plural tells vim which encodings to try when opening a file. Here it tries all the encodings successively, finds that latin-1 is appropriate, and opens the file as latin-1. If you don't do anything, it will also save the file in latin-1. fileencoding in the singular tells vim to save the file in that particular encoding. Arthur