General ⇒ TeXnicCenter: problem with French accents

[petital]

Hi guys,

I'm writing a French document but the accents (é, à, ê...) don't appear on my pdf file after compilation. Do you know how to solve this issue?

Cheers!

Alexis

[localghost]

Ask yourself how anybody is going to answer this question without any useful information [1]. Furthermore you should tell us which version of TeXnicCenter (TXC) you are using. TXC1 RC1 can't handle unicode, but TXC2 alpha 2 (build 1071) does. Note that you need to specify the right input encoding by means of the inputenc package.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Best regards
Thorsten

[petital]

I have tried both TXC1 RC1 and TXC2 alpha 2 but it doesn't work.

I first wrote my text in TexWorks and it worked well, but I decided to work on TeXnicCenter because it's more user friendly. However, I get � instead of "è" for example. If I replace those � by the right letters "è", "é"... it doesn't appear on my final pdf (i.e I get "prfrence" instead of "préférence"). So here am I!

Here's below the first part of my main page, I hope it will help:

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\documentclass[a4paper, french, 11pt]{memoir} 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[french]{babel} 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

The compilation was okay on TexWorks so this is not about the code but just the accents.

Thanks for your help!

Alexis

[localghost]

TeXworks saves files in Unicode (UTF-8). So TXC2 alpha 2 should manage to handle it whereas TXC1 RC1 will fail. The code below works fine for me.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,french]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
 à â è é
\end{document}

I used Kile on Linux with a file saved in UTF-8. Check the file encoding with TXC2 alpha 2 by choosing »Save As« from the »File« menu as seen in the attachment.

[petital]

Thanks localghost.

However, now in the Build section I get 3 errors:

Do you guys have any idea of what that means?

Thanks again!

Alexis

[localghost]

Piecewise information is annoying. And screenshots of error messages are useless. Provide useful information in form of a minimal working example (MWE) along with the produced log file (see the topic I linked in my first reply).

From the screenshot I can only guess that you try to read an external file which is not present in the current working directory.

[petital]

Actually I tried the code you provided above and I got these errors. Where's the log file? I don't find it...

[localghost]

[...] Where's the log file? [...]

In the same directory as the source file.

[petital]

It should be this one that follows:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2010.5.4)  4 MAY 2010 16:58
entering extended mode
**Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe C:\Users\Alexis\Desktop\ALEX.tex

! Emergency stop.
<*> Files 
          (x86)\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe C:\Users\Alexis\Desktop\A...
*** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 2 strings out of 495285
 15 string characters out of 3179876
 45037 words of memory out of 3000000
 3306 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 0i,0n,0p,1b,6s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!