[OS X TeX] TeXShop: Problems with Unicode

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Christoph Hoh wrote:

> ... ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
> (inputenc) in inputencoding `utf8'.
>
> l.2064 ...,\textsc{l}-Alanin zu \textsc{l}-Alanin}
> , Rheinische Friedrich
> ?
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:‰tB not set up for use  
> with LaTeX.
>
> l.2065 Wilhelms Universit‰t B
> onn, Diss., 1991
> ?
> [221]
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:‰tB not set up for use  
> with LaTeX.
>
> What goes wrong here?
> And how can I easily switch to the input lines that are responsible  
> for the errors (I can't use pdfsync)?
>
>
> I read in several list that TeXShop is known to have a general  
> problem with Unicode UTF-8. This is why some people are using  
> TeXMaker instead. However I don't see any problems with UTF-8 coding  
> in TexShop when creating a new document in TeXShop.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Christoph


Howdy,

Put the line

%%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

near the top of the file before doing a Save As... and choosing  
Unicode. That will tell TeXShop to treat the input file as UTF-8 when  
it opens them again. While there are schemes to detect UTF-8 very  
dependably I don't think they're foolproof.

You can also set the default save/read for new files as UTF-8 in  
TeXShop->Preferences.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)