Alternate Font Encodings

 
L^ATEX2HTML can interpret input using 8-bit fonts, provided it is told which font-encoding is being used. This can be done by appending an ``extension'' option to the -html_version command-line switch; e.g.

 latex2html -html_version 3.2,latin2 ....  myfile.doc

declares that any 8-bit characters in the L^ATEX source within the file myfile.doc are to be interpreted according to the ISO-8859-2 (ISO-Latin2) font encoding, rather than the default of ISO-8859-1 (ISO-Latin1).

Furthermore, ISO-10646 (Unicode) entities can be embedded within the output produced by L^ATEX2HTML. For this a further ``extension'' option is appended; viz.

 latex2html -html_version 3.2,latin2,unicode ....  myfile.doc

declares that the input is ISO-Latin2, but that 8-bit characters be output as the corresponding Unicode number. For example, e.g. the Polish would become Ł. Otherwise the browser might render the character as , which is the character in the corresponding place for ISO-Latin1. The input encodings that are recognised are listed in the following table.

 

Table: Supported Font-encodings

extension	(notes)	encoding
unicode	(partial)	ISO-10646 (Unicode)
latin1	(default)	ISO-8859-1 (ISO-Latin1)
latin2		ISO-8859-2 (ISO-Latin2)
latin3		ISO-8859-3 (ISO-Latin3)
latin4		ISO-8859-4 (ISO-Latin4)
latin5		ISO-8859-9 (ISO-Latin5)
latin6		ISO-8859-10 (ISO-Latin6)

If multiple extension options are requested, then later ones override earlier ones.
Only in rare circumstances should it be necessary to do this. For example, if the latter encoding does not define characters in certain places, but an earlier encoding does so, and these characters occur within the source. In this case the unicode extension ought to be loaded also, else browsers may get quite confused about what to render.