Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ (More) missing apostrophies

[dr8086]

Hello all

I'm using TexMakerX 2.1 to compile a book, using text copied over from Open Office.
However when I pdfLaTeX the document, all the apostrophies and quotation marks do not appear.
I've seen a couple of forum threads similar to this, which were solved by turning off 'Smart Quotation marks' in Word, but this hasnt worked for me.
Below is a minimal working example, which I hope will demonstrate the problem.

\documentclass{book}
\title{The Dark}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\chapter{DEEP WATER}

‘Do you realise how serious this is, Joe?’ \par
I can’t look the cop in the eyes. ‘I know it was wrong ... ’\par
He shakes his head. ‘Joe, you must know that driving underage isn’t the half of it. A car that answers the description of yours was at the scene of an accident an hour ago. A lad’s been run over.’\par

\end{document}

Many thanks!
Dave

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Dave,

welcome to the board!

This can be fixed by loading the inputenc package, with the correct encoding option. In my case, with TeXworks, utf8:

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

When I'm using TeX, I would use TeX's quotes though, even if it means replacing characters (automatically).

Stefan

[dr8086]

That's fixed it!
Many thanks for speedy response and resolution, that's saved me hours of work!
Best regards
Dave