[OS X TeX] Problems with iconv

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 14, 2009, at 2:59 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:

>
> Le 14 juin 09 à 19:34, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
>>
>> 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)
>
> Like this:
>
> %!TEX TS-program = latex
>
> \documentclass[twoside]{book}
>
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[french]{babel}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{mathptmx}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \input{nchapitresutf8.tex}
>
> \end{document}
>
> André
>


Howdy,

So TeXShop is going to open the file assuming the encoding is whatever  
you set as the default in TeXShop->Preferences but all of the text  
seems to be in nchapitresutf8.tex sos that should be ok.

Are you sure the document nchapitresutf8.tex is, in fact utf-8? Try  
opening it in TeXShop using the Cmd-O command and make sure the  
encoding is set to utf-8 BEFORE opening it. Also, make no changes to  
the document and certainly don't save it. Does everything look ok? Is  
the document really UTF-8?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)