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Characters with accents not recognized even with inputenc and % !TEX message [duplicate]

My document uses è and ï, so i used the following preamble to make sure they are displayed correctly. However they show up as something else (namely A¨~). What could be the problem? Specifically, I ...
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Inputenc problem in Beamer [closed]

I need to use Spanish accents in beamer but I get errors when I use it \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amscd, amssymb, amsfonts, amsxtra} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} ...
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Accented characters and inputenc settings

In my bibliography database, there are several references where authors have accented characters in their names, e.g. Chagn\'e. The inputenc package seems to have a problem with this. My setting is: ...
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OS X: umlauts in UTF8-NFD yield “Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:̈ not set up for use with LaTeX”

After switching to OS X one of the first things I had to learn the hard way is that many non-ASCII characters, such as the German ü can be encoded in (at least) two different forms in UTF8: U+00FC ...
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How to encoding of Lyx LaTeX output without Lyx adding inputenc declaration to preamble

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Option clash for package inputenc when using Lyx with LaTeX class that already uses inputenc

I use Lyx to edit document whose class declares \usepackage[latin2]{inputenc} in its .cls file. While I only use languages for which Lyx uses the same encoding it only adds the same command ...
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How to change a .tex file's input encoding system (preferably to UTF-8)?

I've been trying to use the hyphenation patterns embedded in the file dehyphtex.tex, which is part of the hyphen-german package. Unfortunately, the file seems to be encoded in a system that's neither ...
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Pi, Kappa, Latin Small Letter Long S: problems with UTF8

I'm using Springers svmono for a book with many mathematical symbols and special characters. There are quite a few problems with characters that are simply not printed (using pdfLatex), so I tried ...
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Encoding italian quotation marks

I've noticed that using \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} my quotation marks are ignored. I've used " in my source files and i would like to see the same glyph(?) in my output file. I saw i should use ...
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TeXShop doesn't remember file encoding

I am aware that this might not be the ideal place please move/close this if so. So since yesterday I run into the following problem: I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in ...
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encoding problem with \verbatiminput : Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

I'm trying to import some logs files using \verbatiminput to do a automatic report from our logs. I got some encoding problem. My objective: import some logs files with various special char (included ...
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edef containing utf8 umlaut characters

Is it somehow possible to have utf8 characters (e.g. german umlauts) inside \edef ? The following example document behaves fine if the umlaut is given directly as argument like \convertTest{Müller}. ...
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This is the document: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} \begin{document} This text is in Russian: проверка. \end{document} This is what TeXLive on Mac OS ...
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Problem with foreign characters

I am writing a report in LaTeX from a LaTeX template given in my university. The text is in English but I need to have some Swedish characters there was well like ä, ö, å etc. Now the problem is that ...
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utf8 or latin1 encoding - german

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} or \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} I write in german if that matters. pro and contra?