Re: How do I set the inputencoding?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:45 AM 5/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am new to ConTeXt, and I would like to know if there is a possibility to 
>easily declare the documents encoding like \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} in 
>LaTeX. I found a lot of information in the manuals, but not how to easily 
>produce our german umlauts. \"A and \~o \cc so on works, but simply typing Ä 
>or õ or ç like in LaTeX would be fine.
>
>I typeset a lot in German and Portugese, so direct support of these 
>characters would be _very_ handy. Presumably it is already built in, only I 
>have not found it.

there are encoding s(set by font macros) and regimes (set by \useregime);
latin 1 is not yet completely defined, but denis promissed me to provide it, 

concerning german, i think that there are enough germans on this list to
advice you what to use best [probably ec encoding]

Hans
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