Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Latex Accents on Mac

[serena]

Previously I used LaTeX on Linux, now I have a Mac. I need to write in French, thus to use are a lot of accents (stuff like: é, è, à etc). Using the right stuff, my LaTeX French documents with
é, è, à did compile correctly on my old PC running with Linux.
However, they show weird symbols when I compile them now, on the Mac.

I have set:

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % set input encoding (not needed with XeLaTeX)

however it doesn't work.

Can you help me to make my old LaTeX documents work ? I need to re-use them

What should I do ?

Thanks

Serena

[Johannes_B]

You need to make your editor use utf8-encoding. It should be somewhere in the properties.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Serena,

welcome to the forum!

The actual encoding of the file is important. The setting of inputenc and the editor setting must match that. That's the step which Johannes already mentioned.

However, if your original file is not in utf8, simply changing inputenc and editor option doesn't modify the file and is not sufficient. Which inputenc option did you use before?

If it was utf8, fine. Mac editors, such as TeXshop and TeXworks (both recommendable) already use utf8. That's why I thought, the problem is based below, already on file level.

In case the original version was not utf8, there are two possible ways:

• keep the original encoding and inputenc option, set the same option in the editor
• or convert the file to utf8 and set the options of inputenc and editor for this.

Stefan