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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"

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  • what charset does npp uses? default is ANSI, but you use an other? Try it with UTF-8...
    – antivirtel
    Dec 13, 2010 at 8:03
  • I tried UTF-8, but the tex file refuses to compile. Then I tried with UTF-8 without BOM, but then strange, hex, characters appear in the document.
    – nixnotwin
    Dec 13, 2010 at 10:06

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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.)

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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

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