Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Problems to encode an input file

[gwydion]

Hi!

I'm working in a bilingual text, so i have the portuguese part in one file, and the english part in the main file. My preamble looks like:

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\documentclass [b5paper, 11pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[british]{babel}

However, when I input the portuguese file

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\include{abstractpt.tex}

the portuguese text is encoded wrongly. On the other hand, if I place the portuguese text directly in the main file, it works perfectly.

Any ideas?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems you need to convert your Portuguese file to latin1 encoding. Or create a latin1 encoded file and copy and paste the text into it - this would mean the same.

Or completely switch to utf8. It's just important that the real encoding of the file(s) match the option for inputenc.

Stefan

[gwydion]

Thanks Stefan,

That I did not know at all. Following your tip, I already figured out how to change the file enconding and it solved the issue.