[OS X TeX] TeXShop: Problems with Unicode

[David Watson]

If you are industrious with the command line (Terminal.app), you could  
try to convert the document with something like
     iconv -f L1 my300pagedoc.tex >myconverted300pagedoc.tex
where "my300pagedoc.tex" is, of course, your filename.

If there are no errors at that point, I would then open the file in  
TeXShop and try the \usepackage[utf8[{inputenc}

On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:59 AM, Christoph Hoh wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I currently have a problem with TeXShop using  Unicode:
> I am trying to texify an older tex-file (about 300 pages, document  
> written using WinEdt/MikTeX on a Windows machine) with MacTeX-2007/ 
> TeXShop. When the document was created the coding "ISO Latin 1" was  
> used. So, I opened the tex-file with this coding and then saved it  
> in UTF-8 coding (I am routinely using this coding in TeXShop).
>
> I then have changed
>
> \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
> to
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> in the preamble.
>
> When texifying this document (TeX and Ghostscript) I receive a lot  
> of error messages that seem to be due to the inputenc package or the  
> utf8 coding, respectively, e.g.
>
>
> ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
> (inputenc) in inputencoding `utf8'.
>
> l.2064 ...,\textsc{l}-Alanin zu \textsc{l}-Alanin}
> , Rheinische Friedrich
> ?
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:‰tB not set up for use  
> with LaTeX.
>
> l.2065 Wilhelms Universit‰t B
> onn, Diss., 1991
> ?
> [221]
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:‰tB not set up for use  
> with LaTeX.
>
> What goes wrong here?
> And how can I easily switch to the input lines that are responsible  
> for the errors (I can't use pdfsync)?
>
>
> I read in several list that TeXShop is known to have a general  
> problem with Unicode UTF-8. This is why some people are using  
> TeXMaker instead. However I don't see any problems with UTF-8 coding  
> in TexShop when creating a new document in TeXShop.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Christoph