Dear Ramon, Many thanks for your help. It seems that my problem was not really serious. Best wishes, and, soon, happy new year ! Jo. 2013/12/29 Ramon Diaz-Uriarte > Dear Joseph, > > One minor suggestion: before exporting/texing you can play around with the > encoding used to save the file by doing > > C-x RET f > > and then specify the one you want (with tab completion as usual). > > You can see which one (among utf-8, or the several iso, etc) works for you > before fixing them in the head line as suggested by Andrea. In my case > (which I guess could be similar to yours in terms of types of accents, ñ, > etc), I use iso-8859-15. > > > Best, > > R. > > > On Sun, 29-12-2013, at 07:05, joseph.vidal.rosset@gmail.com wrote: > > Many thanks Andrea, you are indeed very kind to try to help me when > > everything works fine in your configuration by default. > > > > My OS is Debian (testing) GNU Linux and I'm working with emacs-snapshot. > > > > In fact I have realized that this problem of accents appears only with > > Gnome pdf viewer immediately open after C-e l-o . There is no problem > when > > I compile after directly to pdflatex the latex file produced with the org > > file. Therefore it is a minor bug or a minor problem. > > > > But I meet several difficulties with my tentative of transition from > > writing .tex files to .org files instead. Therefore I am going to write > an > > email to this list of very kind and helpful people. > > > > Best wishes , > > > > Jo. > > > > > > 2013/12/29 Andrea Rossetti > > > >> > >> Joseph Vidal-Rosset writes: > >> > ... Is it a way to automatically save the .org > >> > file in utf8 ? In my emacs the encoding is utf8 by default. > >> > > >> > >> Sorry, I never customized file-coding-system-alist > >> and related variables, defaults worked well for me, so > >> unfortunately I don't have good hints... but please note > >> that in my simple environment (Win7 + Emacs 24.3 + Org 8.2.2-elpa > >> + nearly zero customizations) I can export org to PDF with > >> àèìòù (Italian) without any need to specify encodings, it > >> just worked out-of-the-box. > >> > >> I would suggest to investigate in these directions: > >> > >> 1) try to see what happens without customizations > >> (maybe by running "emacs -Q") > >> > >> 2) try to force utf8 on that specific org file, by saying in > >> the head line: > >> # -*- mode:org; ....your settings...; coding:utf-8 -*- > >> > >> 3) or alternatively: > >> # -*- mode:org; ....your settings...; coding:iso-8859-1 -*- > >> > >> Kindest regards, > >> > >> Andrea > >> > >> > > -- > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte > Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 > Facultad de Medicina > Universidad Autónoma de Madrid > Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 > 28029 Madrid > Spain > > Phone: +34-91-497-2412 > > Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com > ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es > > http://ligarto.org/rdiaz > > > >