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I would like to use special characters as the german umlaute ä, ö, ü, etc. (also ß) in the source file in plain TeX as I may use them in LaTeX using \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. The use of \input utf8-pl and typesetting with plain TeX leads to the error message "The encTeX extension of TeX is not found“. Is there a way to circumvent this problem? I am using TeXShop Version 3.75 on a MacBook Air with macOS Sierra (Version 10.12.1) and encTeX is apparently part of TeXShop.

Alexander Stoffel
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    Why not use xetex or luatex? – Henri Menke Nov 28 '16 at 16:58
  • thanks for the link and great thanks to egreg for the file utfplainmac.tex; it solves perfectly my problem. Without using plain-t1.tex (and the ec-fonts chosen there), the appearance is exactly the same if I use é or 'e, and that is exactly what I wanted. – Alexander Stoffel Dec 01 '16 at 14:21

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