To Thesis.tex
(of Sunil Patel's Thesis Template.zip
) I added these two lines (to allow for German special characters):
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % my edit
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % my edit
in the
% Include any extra LaTeX packages required
section, tried to compile ("Run" in Texmaker, "Compile" in Kile) and received the following error message a number of times:
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:� not set up for use with LaTeX.
I read (somewhere on this site, can't find the link again just now) that it might help to switch the order around,
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % my edit
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % my edit
so I did, more or less with the same result(s). Ulrike Fischer wrote something about it, but frankly I don't get its import; translation(s) welcome! Is Ulrike basically saying that I can happily ignore both the order and the error message?
Another thing which popped up is this message (in Texmaker):
... so maybe all it takes is to change Thesis.tex from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 ? Or would I need to change the encoding of other files (contained in the *.zip), as well? Anyway, I tried changing Thesis.tex to UTF-8, compiled, closed; re-opened; again it's back to ISO-8859-1 :( Going in circles...
Edit
Now I'm trying to use these lines instead
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
Maybe that will do the trick?
It would be so much a great help (to me as a beginner, who's only read/skimmed two LaTeX books so far (a while ago), but didn't get his hands dirty for real yet) if someone could look at the *.zip contents and let me know how to do it right.
Some related Q&A's, which are too technical for me at this point in time:
Error: Unicode char \u8:φ not set up for use with LaTeX
Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX
Moving from pdfLaTeX to XeTeX - what do I need to know?
Would anyone recommend me to switch from pdfLaTeX to a different compiler, at this beginners' stage of mine? For now, I'm only interested in writing a short thesis with one or two tables, bibliography, etc; nothing more exotic than that.
PS: If you happen to know of an alternative template which looks pretty similar to Sunil's and is already compatible with the German umlauts, please do let me know.
.cls
) and package (.sty
) files are written just using ascii so they work with any encoding.