Hello,

I would like to know how to check the encoding of a text file (UTF-8? Latin-1? other?).
All the editors I use on my computer (emacs, kwrite) seem to code by default in UTF-8, but LaTeX seems to assume the file is latin-1. Therefore, I have to change the encoding each time I write a new file.

So, my questions are:
- how to check the encoding of a text file?
- how to force a text editor (emacs, for example) to use a specific encoding by default?
- how to make LaTeX accept UTF-8?

Thank you in advance for your answer to any of these questions.

Benjamin

It looks like

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

does the job.

(See http://www.bidon.ca/article103.html)

Thank you. That works great.

Now does anybody have the answer to the other questions? I would really like to have more control on the encoding of my files.

Best regards,

Benjamin