[OS X TeX] Problems with iconv

[André Bellaïche]

Le 14 juin 09 à 22:58, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

>
> 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)
>

Well,

The default in TeXShop->Preferences is set to UTF-8.

The document nchapitresutf8.tex is utf-8. When I try to open other  
documents, either in applemac or in latin1, a window opens, saying  
that the text could not be open with utf-8 encoding.

Another way to check the encoding of the file is to use TextEdit, by  
setting the opening preferences nto applemac, latin1 and utf-8.  
TexShop is willing to open nchapitresutf8.tex whatever be the  
encoding, but it is only with the preference set to utf-8 that we get  
a text without fault.

The main file has also been converted to utf-8, (by TextEdit).

But I still get the error message

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:„©l not set up for use with  
LaTeX.

(I am not sure that the console uses utf-8. It seems that the error  
message is set in latin1, and then displayed (without conversion)  
utf-8.)

Thank for your help.

A.B.