Re: [xindy] Problems with utf8 files

[stefano f. <ste...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Joachim Schrod <js...@ac...> wrote:
> Zdenek Wagner writes:
>> 2011/1/3 stefano franchi <ste...@gm...>:
>> > I am working on a book project typeset with LuaTeX (to be more
>> > precise, lualatex). I need to change the sort order of the various
>> > accented letters, and make them behave as if they were unaccented
>> > (i.e., as in the Duden-order in German). My project  is in
>> > English/american and the tex input files are all unicode, inclusing
>> > the \index entries (no Latex workarounds like \"o etcetera). I  wrote
>> > a small xindy style file with my sort rules, such as:
>> >
>> > (sort-rule "ö" "o")
>> > (sort-rule "ü" "u")
>> >
>> > etc.,
>> >
>> > plus the standard modules (the whole file is appended below).
>> >
>> > But here is my problem:
>> >
>> > 1. If I call xindy with the english language module:
>> >
>> > xindy -L english -M mymodule.xdy myfile.idx
>> >
>> > then the sort rules are ignored. They are obeyed only if I change  the
>> > \index commands to contain Latex-like accents instead of unicode
>> > accented letters. However, this is not practical, since I have
>> > hundreds of entries contained across several files. It seems as if
>> > xindy is not recognizing the input file as utf8.
>> >
>> Have you tried xindy -L general myfile.idx ? I think it's exactly
>> what you need.
>
> Zdenek is right concerning the sort order, as usual.
>
> To make xindy recognize the input file as utf8, you need to add -C
> utf8. Don't forget that you also need -M texindy or -M your_own.xdy;
> otherwise no output would happen.
>
> HTH,
>        Joachim
>
> --

Thanks Zdenek and Joachim.

The combination of -L general and -C utf8 solved my problem.

Cheers,

Stefano


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