Well, I open a document .tex that uses this preamble:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[brazil]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
and the font codification is UTF-8. The problem is that some, just some, words are not accentuated, and in the place of the accent, a question mark like this �, appears. Here are some examples:
Word on the document (wrong) correct word
n�mero número
Estat�sticas estatísticas
Is there any way to solve this problem without having to rewrite all the words?
.tex
file when viewed in your editor? If it is the latter, which editor are you using?.tex
file? If I compile a document with your preamble and the words taken from your "correct word" column, everything works fine.utf8
(the encoding of your document). Please make sure that both encodings are the same.