General ⇒ How to change UTF8 to Latin1

[karimovy]

I'm trying to write my CV in French, I 'll Need Putting some words with accents. how can I do?
When I add \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} nothing happens.

[cgnieder]

With inputenc you only tell LaTeX which encoding your file has. The actual encoding can be set with the editor (emacs, vim, TeXstudio, …) that you're using. You need to ensure that the file actually has latin1 (ISO 8859-1) encoding. Only afterwards \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} will ensure that the characters of your input and the output after compiling will match.

Regards

[karimovy]

Hi , thank you for your help.
I tried to change utf8 to iso8859-1 before and I got this message :

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! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc) in inputencoding `latin1'.
See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.

[cgnieder]

The first thing to do is to save/convert your file in the encoding you want to use (that's preferably utf8 but latin1 will work fine, of course). This is completely independent from inputenc and something you can do with your editor.

After that check your file if special characters (ä, ß, ø, – etc) are displayed correctly. If yes, everything's fine, if no, change them back by retyping them.

Once that is done add the inputenc package with the matching encoding as option.

If the errors still appear post an minimal working example showing the problems.

Regards

[karimovy]

hi , I could solve the problem by adding:

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