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Re: Setting encoding for application



On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote:
> I installed Debian two weeks ago, and everything is going good. 

Welcome to the club. :-)

> But when I use LaTeX, the output is erronous, in the sense that all
> my french accents are gone, or misrepresented. What I want is the
> latin1 (or ISO-8859-1) encoding, but I don't know how to change
> that. Anybody can help?

I don't know if this helps, but I think the usual way to get accented
characters is to escape them. E.g. to get Jésus type J\'esus.

And at the top of your document - after \documentclass - you may need
a line like

\usepackage[french]{babel}

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