[OS X TeX] Missing accented vowels

[Vittorio]

Il giorno 22/apr/08, alle ore 17:07, Peter Dyballa ha scritto:

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> Am 22.04.2008 um 15:55 schrieb Vittorio:
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>> What should I do to make them reappear?
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> You need to tell LaTeX in which encoding you decided to record these  
> 8-bit entities. For example:
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>  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}				% needed for XeTeX compatibility
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> (which I do not really recommend) or
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Why is utf8 not recommended?

Vittorio