<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I'm new to Tex. I've downloaded the MacTex distribution.</div><div>All was OK so far.</div><div>I tried the example shown in the "Red me First " document. OK So far</div><div>After that I tried some sentences in french tthus containing é, è ù and accented letters.</div><div>Unfortunately those letters have disapeared in the output text. I mean a word like "où" or "désespérément" results in "o" and "dsprment' in the output.</div><div>Could you tell me how to fix that problem? I suppose that MacTex Latex is language free and accept any language.</div><div>I also change some encoding schemes but with no succes.</div><div><br></div><div>In advance thanks for help</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Jacques Goldman </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Bankstraat 30 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">B-3078 Everberg </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">tel: +32 2 759 96 51 </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">gsm: +32 476 24 30 55</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal; ">Skype: chrysandre</span></span></font></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>