Bug 91941

Summary: Kile doesn't recognize German characters
Product: [Applications] kile Reporter: Claus Fritzenkötter <Claus.Fritzenkoetter>
Component: generalAssignee: Jeroen Wijnhout <spam>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Claus Fritzenkötter 2004-10-23 10:01:17 UTC
Version:           kile 1.7 (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          kernel 2.6 
OS:                Linux

Hi everyone,

I've recently upgraded to SuSE Linux 9.1, using KDE 3.2.1 and the newest Kile version 1.7.

Before the upgrade, Kile worked fine. Now, it seems I can't use German charakters any more. Here is a short example: When trying to compile the following .tex file

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{german,a4,color}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Käthe geht über die Straße.
\end{document}

I get the following error message:

[PDFLaTeX] Skript2.tex => Skript2.pdf (pdflatex)
[PDFLaTeX] mit Status 1 beendet
Skript2.tex:5:Command \textcurrency unavailable in encoding OT1. K^^c3^^a4
Skript2.tex:5:Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined(inputenc) in inputencoding `latin1'. K^^c3^^a4the geht ^^c3^^bcber die Stra^^c3^^9f
[PDFLaTeX] 2 errors, 0 warnings, 0 badboxes

Hope someone can help me out on this one. Thank you!

Greetings, Claus
Comment 1 Jeroen Wijnhout 2004-10-23 16:03:19 UTC
AFAIK SuSE 9.1 is UTF-8 by default now. This means that all documents are encoding in UTF-8 not in the latin1 encoding. Does it help if you save the document in latin1 encoding? (Go to View->Set Encoding->ISO 8859-1.)

best,
Jeroen
Comment 2 Claus Fritzenkötter 2004-10-23 17:08:13 UTC
Yes, it helps. Thank you!

Is it possible to set ISO 8859-1 as default encoding for all new documents? I've tried "input encoding" in the "settings -> configure kile ...", but it still seems to me that I have to change the encoding type for each new tex-file.

Greetings, Claus
Comment 3 Thomas Braun 2005-12-11 23:03:54 UTC
Hi Claus,

do you still have the bug in kile 1.8 or kile svn ?

Thanks
Thomas Braun
Comment 4 Thomas Braun 2006-01-24 17:21:28 UTC
This bugreport applies to an old version of kile and had no comments since one year.
Therefore I close it.

Thanks 
Thomas Braun

PS: The encoding has to be set also in the "Configure Editor" menu, the new kile 1.9 will have only one encoding option to prevent this confusion.