[LaTeX] Re: beamer and inputenc (utf8x) issue

[Joseph Wright]

On 01/07/2022 22:22, David Carlisle wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 at 21:41, Dr Nicola L C Talbot via tex-live <
> tex-live at tug.org> wrote:
> 
>> but it would be really useful if inputenc provided a way to
>> grab all octets of a multioctet character so that sentence casing (and
>> similar tasks) can work without having to group the initial character.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nicola Talbot
>>
> 
> LaTeX has built in support  for title casing utf-8 input that has the same
> interface in unicode tex and 8-bit tex engines.
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \ExplSyntaxOn
> \let\hmm\text_titlecase_first:n
> \ExplSyntaxOff
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> 
> \hmm{élite} is Élite
> 
> \end{document}
> 

For 2022-06-01 PL5 we are addressing a few case change issues but also 
adding \MakeTitlecase - this really is needed once you want to describe 
titlecasing. So within a day or so all you'll need in a new LaTeX is to 
check for \MakeTitlecase, then use that.

Regards,

Joseph