Text Formatting ⇒ Input Encodings not available

[maxwell57]

Hello,

I work with the Kile software. I cannot compile my PDF. At first I installed all the packages because I have already done some research on my problem.

I absolutely can not find out why the option utf8 or latin1 don't work. When I click PDFLaTeX, it returns me this message.

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finished with exit code 1.

Unknown option 'utf8' for package 'inputenc'.

Here is the code I can not compile:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
%\documentclass[10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{Cours de MHD} 
\author{} 
\date{19 septembre 2013}

\begin{document} 
\maketitle 
Etude des fluides conducteurs plongés dans les champs électriques et magnétiques

\end{document}

Here is the package I installed :

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dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-common texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-humanities texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-latin texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures texlive-pstricks
dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ sudo apt-get update
dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$  sudo apt-get upgrade
dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ sudo texhash

more information :

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dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ sudo find -name utf8
./usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/cjk/utf8
./usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/ht-fonts/utf8

Thanking you in advance, I look forward to your suggestions.

[maxwell57]

The solution is to uninstall an reinstall Kile.

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dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ apt-get autoremove kile
dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ apt-get install kile

[Johannes_B]

Well, the solution really had nothing to do with the title, so here is a hint on that.

You can use package selinput to semi-automatically choose the encoding.

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\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{
  eacute={é},
  agrave={à}
}

Best regards
Johannes

[localghost]

You can use package selinput to semi-automatically choose the encoding.

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\usepackage{selinput}
\SelectInputMappings{
  eacute={é},
  agrave={à}
}

There's a rub in this solution for this use case. The selinput package only detects the input encoding and afterwards loads inputenc with the corresponding definition file ("utf8.def" here). You can see that if you add \listfiles to a sample code.

The solution is to uninstall an reinstall Kile.

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dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ apt-get autoremove kile
dreydem@dreydem-Aspire-E1-531:~$ apt-get install kile

This is probably only an indirect solution since this might cause the installation of basic LaTeX packages. The inputenc package and the definition files (*.def) for input encoding are part of the LaTeX base. You find out their location in the TeX installation tree by using the KPathSea libraries.

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thorsten@earth:~$ kpsewhich inputenc.sty
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
thorsten@earth:~$ kpsewhich utf8.def
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
thorsten@earth:~$ kpsewhich latin1.def
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/latin1.def

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Johannes_B]

@localghost You are right, i wasn't paying enough attention.

Another thing to be mentioned: selinput detects the encoding of the master document, all included documents should have the same encoding.

Please do not mix encodings within a project