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fibonacci2
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Change Language within a Document

Post by fibonacci2 »

Hi guys!

I'm writing a bilingual document in English and Italian and I have this problem: I can't change language inside the document.

I tried all these commands:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage[OT1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage[italian,english]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{italian}
città
\selectlanguage{english}
\foreignlanguage{italian}{città}
\begin{otherlanguage}{italian}
città
\end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}
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but none of them works properly!
In each case the letter "accented a" is wrongly displayed with a swung dash (instead of the accent).
Does someone have an idea about which problem is?

Thanks!

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localghost
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Change Language within a Document

Post by localghost »

It's not related to the language, but more an encoding problem. For accented characters from a European language try another font encoding as well as input encoding.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % enable Cork Encoding
\usepackage{selinput} % instead of »inputenc«
\SelectInputMappings{
agrave={à},
igrave={ì},
Euro={€}
}
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Thorsten
fibonacci2
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Re: Change Language within a Document

Post by fibonacci2 »

Thank you very much Thorsten! :)
Your solution works and you were very fast in replying!
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