<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hi all,<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I have a (hopefully) simple question. I know that TexShop can save files in a variety of encodings, like Latin, UTF-8, and so forth.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The default for TS seems to be Western Mac encoding. What will change if I change everything to UTF-8?<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I'll explain why: I have a document that's a sub-part of a master doc (a chapter of my dissertation). In the chapter, there's a lot of stuff that's quoted in or cut-and-pasted from Spanish, and the originals have lots of accented characters (á and other vowels, for example). Under the default encoding, pdflatex is unhappy and spits back an error, but under UTF-8, pdflatex is as happy as a clam. I've written the other parts of the dissertation (three chapters) in Western Latin Mac. Is anything terrible going to happen (to the best of your guessing) if I save just this chapter in UTF-8, as a subsidiary of the master doc? So, </div><div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Is one part of a master in a different encoding a problem?</div><div>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Or does the whole master doc and all subsidiary (\include{}) docs need to be in the same encoding?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What effect could this have on those docs, assuming no other changes are made?<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I hope that's clear. Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Best,</div><div>-Nathan </div></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">----------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Nathan A. Paxton</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Ph.D. Candidate</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Dept. of Government, Harvard University</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Resident Tutor</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">John Winthrop House, Harvard University</font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton">http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~napaxton</a></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">=========================================================</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">When you have to stay eight years away from California, you live in a perpetual state of homesickness.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> - Ronald Reagan</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> -Coco Chanel</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">=========================================================</font></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>