General ⇒ Romanian characters

[alexdw]

Hi, I am new to the whole LaTeX thing.

I installed MikTex under Windows, and I use TeXnicCenter as an editor.

My problem is, as I am from Romania, that i was unable to generate a pdf file with romanian characters (ă î â ş ţ). I modified the editor to accept utf8 input so i could right in the editor these characters but when i generate the output file i get no characters.

This is a simple example I would like to get working:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Ă Î Â Ş Ţ 
ă î â ş ţ
\end{document}

I know that using only this i get a message in the log files that character ă not found in cmr12, so i changed the font encoding using in the preamble
\usepackage[utf8]{fontenc}
but this did not solve my problem.

What must I do to get the desired effect in the pdf file?

Thank You!

[gmedina]

Hi,

try

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
Ă Î Â Ş Ţ 
ă î â ş ţ
\end{document}

It works if your editor has unicode support.

[alexdw]

Thank you for your reply!

But I have tried that before posting in the forum, without success. From what I understand, correct me if I am wrong, \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} is the encoding of the characters used for the input of the .tex file, not for the output (the .pdf or .dvi files) for which i used \usepackage[utf8]{fontenc} but, again, without any success. I can write in my tex editor with Romanian characters, but I cannot see them in the final result.

[localghost]

TXC1 RC1 can't handle unicode. This feature has found its way only now into the current alpha version of TXC2.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten