[OS X TeX] Unwanted conversion of Unicode characters to \UTF{code}

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Nov 15, 2023, at 11:51 AM, Luís Fernando Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I have a friend using TeXShop that is writing documents in Portuguese. 
> The documents are encoded in UTF-8, as they should be.
> 
> Every time a non-ASCII character is entered, it looks ok, like áéçÕ, etc.
> But neither pdflatex with inputenc, nor xelatex with fonspec are able to typeset.
> 
> What happens is these characters are strangely converted to something like \UTF{00E3},
> which cause the typeset to fail at that point. 
> 
> 
> Even weirder, if he sends the files to me via e-mail, I receive them with these unwanted substitutions, so it seems there is something in reading these files that automatically converts them. For example:
> 
> Original file:
> \author{João António-dos-Santos}
> 
> Comes out as:
> \author{Jo\UTF{00E3}o Ant\UTF{00F3}nio-dos-Santos}
> 
> when sent to me via e-mail...
> 
> Any ideas of how to deal with it?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Luís Sequeira
> 

Howdy,

You probably have During File Save->Automatic ... checked on the Misc2 tab of  TeXShop->Settings. You might also check to see the utf export option under pTeX support (for Japan) is also not checked.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com