Can you upload the pdf on a website (instead of the ML)? IMHO, problems with accentuated chars can come from the use of heterogeneous encodings (emacs unicode + context ec for example as I experienced). Check the encoding of your input file with "file test.tex", if you get something like "ISO-8859 text" and you use ec or texnansi in cont-sys.tex, the problem is not encoding-related. ... It can help if you send the output messages of texexec... Jean Magnan de Bornier a écrit :
(just a viewer for dvi files, does it matter?)
Well, since the first post I ran updmap-sys, and then suddenly the dvi file is as expected; but with the pdf option I get something unexpected: instead of blank for accented letters (when I posted first) there are now sometimes other characters than those I type (I'll send the pdf file if it can help).
Thanks Renaud and Hans,