How can I compile LaTeX in UTF8?

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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 picture Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 · Aug 10, 2009 · Viewed 138.4k times · Source

I did my document in an ISO-standard. It does not support umlaut alphabets, such as ä and ö. I need them. The document gets compiled without UTF8, but not with UTF8. More precisely, the document does not get compiled with the line at the beginning of my main.tex:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

How can I compile my LaTeX document in UTF8?

Answer

Uwe Honekamp picture Uwe Honekamp · Aug 10, 2009

I'm not sure whether I got your problem but maybe it helps if you store the source using a UTF-8 encoding.

I'm also using \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in my LaTeX sources and by storing the files as UTF-8 files everything works just peachy.

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