[OS X TeX] Problems with iconv

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 14, 2009, at 12:14 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:

> I use TeXShop with some mac-encoded file which was converted from  
> latin1. This file typeset very well with \usepackage[applemac] 
> {inputenc}
>
> I convert it back using
>
> iconv -f MAC -t LATIN1 nchapitres.tex > nchapitreslatin1.tex
>
> By typesetting  nchapitreslatin1.tex (with \usepackage[latin1] 
> {inputenc}), I get the error :
>
> 						! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
> 						(inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin1'.
> 						 ...
> 						 l.369 \end{example}
>
> This is rather surprising, since the output of iconv is supposed to  
> be made with latin1 characters.
>
> I try UTF8 instead of LATIN1
>
> iconv -f MAC -t UTF8 nchapitres.tex > nchapitresutf8.tex
>
> By typesetting  nchapitreslatin1.tex (with \usepackage[utf8] 
> {inputenc}, and utf8 in the preferences of TeXShop), I get the error :
>
> 						Overfull \hbox (3.11702pt too wide) in paragraph at lines  
> 361--368
> 						[...] .endexample |
>
> 						! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:„©l not set up for  
> use with LaTeX.
>
> Puzzling!
>
> I tried to make the conversions uisng TextEdit, I got the same  
> results.
>
> André
>


Howdy,

How is it being read into TeXShop?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)