Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with special characters

[frodojedi]

Hello,
I want to type in latex the character ø without writing \o in order to get
the correct formatting. How can I do this?
My attempt is in the following code. What is wrong?

Please enlighten me

Thanks in advance

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,onecolumn]{report}

\usepackage[francais,german,danish,english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}


\title{LaTeX}
\author{Johnny Cash}
\date{February}

\begin{document}

\maketitle


\chapter{Example}

\section{Special characters}

\selectlanguage{danish}
 
I want to print this character ø without writing \o

\end{document}

[meho_r]

Then try with:

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

[frodojedi]

Hi,
I knew it, I tried before but I got this error:

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! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc)                in inputencoding `utf8'.

Any suggestion?

[svend_tveskaeg]

I remember another user having more or less the same problem on the Danish TeX mailing list some time ago. I believe his problem was that he had ``recycled'' an old (Plain TeX) document which wasn't saved with UFT8 encoding.

This could be your problem, too, but I am fare from sure.

Try with a ``fresh'' document and see if it helps.

[frodojedi]

Yes!!
It works!!

Thanks a lot

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