German umlaut in LaTeX generated PDF

[mathias-goebel]

may we should include german language babel packages? \usepackage[ngerman]{betababel}

Example and its corresponding PDF output.

[duncdrum]

I see three issues with babel.

• Just to fix ß, within latex context, including [ngerman] by default would be a quick fix for umlauts.
• As it stand the current latex based header already fails to output the sanskrit from one of the demo documents

\fancyhead[OL]{\leftmark}
\title{ཀུན་རྫོབ་དང་དོན་དམ་པའི་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་པ། — The Inquiry of Avalokiteśvara on the Seven Qualities — Avalokiteśvaraparipṛcchāsaptadharmaka — འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས་ཞུས་པ་ཆོས་བདུན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། — ’phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gis zhus pa chos bdun pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo —  The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Inquiry of Avalokiteśvara on the Seven Qualities” — Āryāvalokiteśvaraparipṛcchāsaptadharmakanāmamahāyānasūtra}

• moving to a unicode capable engine (like xelatex) would solve these problems, but then polyglossia would be the preferable language engine, and im sure other packages would need to get changed such as fancyheadas well.
• while bitex, biblatex, or biber doesn't seem to be implemented yet, we should pick a language package with an eye to that, since they are not all cross-compatible and certainly reference management makes sense for tei:bibl elements

[sieversMartin]

You should consider using babel together with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX again as there has been a lot of work spend within the last three years.