Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Inserting tildes in source code files.

[turbomac]

Hi everyone:

I'm using listings to write some algorithms, but there're some words that use tildes. Kile gives me errors when I try to put them.

This is the code I want to put in the document:

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\begin{lstlisting}
if (condición){
instrucciones...
}

And this is the error that Kile gives:

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Package utf8x Error: MalformedUTF-8sequence if(condición)

Any suggestions?
THanks in advance.

[frabjous]

I don't see any tildes anywhere in that code.

But I can recreate your problem. It seems to be some weird incompatibility with the listings package, since there is no problem if you don't use the lstlisting environment.

Two things to try, as I see it.

The first is to compile with XeLaTeX and remove the inputenc line altogether. (Use the Fontspec package to choose a font with the appropriate characters.)

Another thing you could try, if you want to keep using regular latex/pdflatex and don't need to use any unusual utf8 characters, is to save the file as Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding. (See "convert to" in the file menu of Kile.) and change the inputenc line to:

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

[localghost]

If you don't write in a certain programming language, I would suggest to use either algorithm2e or algorithms. Then your problem might not occur.


Thorsten

[gmedina]

HI,

the OP used "tildes" to refer to accents (in this case, the acute accent used in Spanish). To handle those special characters, the best way to go is to escape to LaTeX (See Section 4.14 Escaping to LaTeX of the package documentation); a little example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{escapeinside=||}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
if (condici|ó|n){
instrucciones...
}
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

[turbomac]

HI,

the OP used "tildes" to refer to accents (in this case, the acute accent used in Spanish). To handle those special characters, the best way to go is to escape to LaTeX (See Section 4.14 Escaping to LaTeX of the package documentation); a little example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{escapeinside=||}

\begin{document}

\begin{lstlisting}
if (condici|ó|n){
instrucciones...
}
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

It worked!! THanks a lot!!!