Re: ligatures in html

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Sep 22 2015, david.pw.smith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Indeed, for me, Pandoc's default tex template outputs the unicode 
> characters correctly, but this could be because my environment is set up to 
> use XeLaTeX.

Well, that's probably not the reason, unless you've symlinked the
command `pdflatex` to `xelatex`. Pandoc's default latex template uses
the inputenc package with the [utf8] option. This ensures that LaTeX
accepts utf8 encoded input files, whereby non-ASCII-characters are
translated into LaTeX commands that produce them. So `æ` in the input
file will be translated to `\ae`, which will then be replaced with the
glyph `æ` in the pdf output.

One reason to still use XeLaTeX (or LuaLaTeX) is that inputenc does not
support all Unicode characters, though. And It's easier to use system
fonts.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

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