I thank you Andrea, and Nick, Andrea, you are probably right. Is it a way to automatically save the .org file in utf8 ? In my emacs the encoding is utf8 by default. Best wishes, Jo. 2013/12/27 Andrea Rossetti > Joseph Vidal-Rosset gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > I do not succeed to solve this problem of accent with pdflatex : > > > > Shot in the dark: could it be that the encoding of your > org file needs to be saved in utf8 in order to generate a utf8 > latex file? Regards, Andrea > > > >