TeXworks ⇒ Input Encoding

[jakobkn]

Hello,

my TeXworks installation does not offer Latin 1 encoding as an optional encoding in editor options. I would like to have this due to collaboration with other people using TeXMaker editor with latin1 encoding (æøå characters are translated into �).

Does anyone know how TeXworks can be configured to do this? The version I'm using is that which is shipped with MiKTeX 2.9, fully updated. I imagined it would only be a matter of adding the appropriate .def file somewhere, but I have been unsuccessful thus far.

Any help appreciated!

[localghost]

[…] my TeXworks installation does not offer Latin 1 encoding as an optional encoding in editor options. […]

It offers this encoding (ISO-8859-1) very well (see attachment). But it is suggestive to use Unicode (UTF-8). Nearly all other mordern editors off this encoding. So it should be no problem for your partners to recode their documents.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jakobkn]

Ah, thank you very much. I see now that I did not update the editor correctly when trying other ISO standards, and thus did not realize ISO-8859-1 = Latin1.

Adding % !TEX encoding = ISO-8859-1 to the beginning of files did the trick.

[localghost]

[…] Adding % !TEX encoding = ISO-8859-1 to the beginning of files did the trick.

Note that this solution is only occasional for the current document. But perhaps better in this situation.