Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ German Umlaute in TexShop

[Tim88]

hi everybody,

i'm using TexShop for mac and i'm having a lot of trouble by setting up the System for the german Umlaut like ä ü ö. Also im kind of new to Latex in general.
My research on google wasn't any help. I tried a lot of different set ups like \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and of course applemac, macce, latin1, latin9. nothing is working.

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Right now im trying to save the Document in a different Encoding language.
Am i on the right track?

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tim,

welcome to the forum!

Are you using pdfLaTeX? Or another compiler such as XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX?

Those three lines are fine for German support with pdfLaTeX. Ensure that UTF-8 is the default encoding of TeXshop, and ensure that you both choose UTF-8 when opening and saving a file.

If this doesn't help, please post a small compilable test document and the corresponding log file and pdf output as attachment.

Btw. if you speak German, you may be interested in our partner site TeXwelt.de where all LaTeX questions are welcome.

Stefan

[Tim88]

im using XeLaTeX so far. My Encoding is set on unicode (utf-8).

After clicking on typeset the compiler stops right here: undefined control sequence

[Stefan Kottwitz]

XeLaTeX uses Unicode (utf8) natively. So do not use inputenc. Also use fontspec instead of fontenc. And possibly change to polyglossia instead of babel. The three lines above could be replaced by:

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\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{german}

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

with XeLaTeX, you don't need the packages inputenc and fontenc. But you do need package fontspec.

[Tim88]

thanks but that didn't work unfortunately.

maybe im missing just a stupid thing which i cant think of right now.
so from the beginning:

- i save my document as utf-8
- the file format is Tex File
- in my preferences is encoding set on unicode (utf-8)
- in typesetting im using XeLaTeX (before i was also using LateX)

am i missing something?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

am i missing something?

Yes, the minimal working example and the requested corresponding .log and .pdf file as attached.

Seeing that, we would already have known that XeLaTeX was used with wrong packages and possibly something else what wasn't mentioned yet.

Stefan

[Tim88]

ok thanks. so i just set the default settings.

[Johannes_B]

The first line of your log starts like this:

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2014.5.25)  6 MAY 2015 12:39

So, you are not using XeLaTeX.

Additionally, you are using packages fontenc and inputenc.
The log-file is incomplete, are you sure that the process was finished correctly?

[Tim88]

no i reseted everything to default. Giving it a fresh start.

so far all my documents worked, only the new german written document troubles me.

so from the beginning what are the first steps for dummies?
it seems working fine for the most mac users when they just entered the right package like inputenc.

i'm really glad for any help!