Beamer and italian accented letters

Question

I'm trying to use beamer class for my thesis, I'm italian so my language use a lot of accented letters, but beamer misunderstand that letters. This is a MWE of my problem:

\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>

\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
    Test: à 
\end{document}

All that I get from this is an A with ~ on it.

Answer 1

The best way I found to put accented letters and ensure multiuser and multisystem compatibility is to encode the document in UTF8.

If you use texmaker Preferences -> Editor -> Font Encoding. Select UTF8.

Then in the document preamble write:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Answer 2

Try a semi-automatic input selection by the selinput package from the oberdiek bundle.

\documentclass[italian]{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}     % Replacement for »inputenc«
\SelectInputMappings{     % Semi-automatic input selection
  agrave={à},             % by a list of selected glyphs
  egrave={è},             % see: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt
  Euro={€}
}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
  \begin{frame}
    Test: à ì
  \end{frame}
\end{document}