I use 5.8.5 version of notepad++. The .tex file that I have edited on notepad++ could not be opened on gedit. The error I get is "character set could not be recognized"
2 Answers
Two things to try (from the commandline):
Firstly:
fromdos filename.tex
(requires the tofrodos package).
Secondly:
iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 filename.tex > filename-copy.tex
That should remove any characters not compatible with UTF-8.
(You should also follow the advice in the other answer about putting \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
in your .tex source.)
My latex files are all utf8 and compile on windows and on linux.
I would use UTF-8 without BOM
and add
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
in the main file to inform the pdflatex
or latex
command that the content is UTF8
UTF-8 without BOM
, but then strange, hex, characters appear in the document.