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

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Tim Avatar asked Mar 22 '10 19:03

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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.

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Thomas Pornin Avatar answered Nov 03 '22 23:11

Thomas Pornin