How to set UTF8 in a lstlisting? (Error received)

Question

I need to copy and past some UTF8 code into a lstlisting, but unfortunately, I receive the following error :

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:�\lst@FillFixed@\lst@EC� not set up for use with LaTeX.

Keyboard character used is undefined

What is weird was that I didn't noticed any weird characters in my lstlisting code (it's some bash code). Furthermore I got the package in header:

 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

What should I do?

Answer 1

I just solved it in using

  inputencoding=latin1

I hope it can help some in the same case than me.

Answer 2

listings cannot handle UTF8-characters. Search in the docs for the keyword literate. Then you'll see how UTF-8 characters can be mapped to TeX commands, eg ü->\"u: \lstset{literate={ü}{{\"u}}1}

Answer 3

I solved adding texcl=true to the \lstset configuration.

Answer 4

Some of these may help (probably you don't need all these lines):

\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\lstset{literate=% Allow for German characters in lstlistings.
{Ö}{{\"O}}1
{Ä}{{\"A}}1
{Ü}{{\"U}}1
{ß}{{\ss}}2
{ü}{{\"u}}1
{ä}{{\"a}}1
{ö}{{\"o}}1
}

Here you'll find similar code for lots of other languages and characters, and some other hints to this same problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1116266/listings-in-latex-with-utf-8-or-at-least-german-umlauts/15450398

P.S. Whenever you use lstlisting, you usually want to add something like this for other reasons (they don't affect your problem):

\usepackage{listings} 
\lstset{
basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,  %Looks much better.
columns=flexible, %Without this you get fixed-width fonts, which look bad.
breaklines=true,   %End-of-line wrap - you really want this, usually.
language=tex   %Percent comments in cursive, so you distinguish them from the commands. Other languages are also available, such as C and Matlab.
}