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Giuseppe Bilotta [21/05/02 12:17 +0200]:
> 
> Monday, May 20, 2002 "v.demart@libero.it" wrote:
> 
> vdli> Enough experienced with latex I'm now having a go at context under 
> vdli> linux. 
> vdli> My debian linux installation supports Italian under context. Therefore, 
> vdli> after having read every piece of docs I suppose I've selected every 
> vdli> option i nthe many configuration files to have context speak Italian to 
> vdli> no avail: 
> vdli> when I run "texexec test" I don't get "Capitolo" but still "Chapter", 
> vdli> the hyphenation is the english one and no chance of seeing the accented 
> vdli> vowels (I know that all these are different packages and options under 
> vdli> latex!).
> 
> \mainlanguage[it]
> 
> would turn on italian as the main language (and thus select both
> section texts and hyphenations patterns). This is more or less the
> equivalent of \usepackage[italian]{babel} for LaTeX. To ensure
> that ConTeXt knows about the Italian hyphenation patterns, have a
> look at cont-usr.tex in your texmf/tex/context/user directory and
> make sure that the line
> 
>   \installlanguage [\s!it] [\c!status=\v!start] % italian
> 
> is uncommented. If it's not, change the file and recreate the
> cont-en format (assuming that's what you're using). You should not
> need any other change.
> 
> To enable automatic recognition of the accented letters, you need
> to use
> 
> \enableregime[il1]
> 
> (assuming that your text editor saves the extended characters in
> ISO-Latin-1 format). This is more or less the equivalent of
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} for LaTeX.

My Context now speaks Italian ("Capitolo", "Indice" instead of
"Chapter","Contents") but still don't recognizes accented vowels even
though I followed your suggestions literally.

What should I check next?

Vittorio