Special names in Latex

Question

In my english thesis latex file, how to mention the following non English words: François, École Fédérale?

Thanks and regards!

Answer 1

The traditional way is to use the accent-adding macros:

Fran\c{c}ois
\'Ecole F\'ed\'erale

(You can also write Fran\c{}cois or Fran\c cois; the \c macro uses no parameter; the braces or space are just a trick to allow LaTeX to see the proper macro name.)

Otherwise, try this:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

and type the accents directly, with UTF-8 encoding.

There are a host of more-or-less subtle issues with fonts and hyphenation.