Hi, I've a hp omnibook laptop with RH8.0 : i'm doing some work with latex, in portuguese, with some "strange" portuguese characters like "ã" or "ç", so i write the code with pico or with other text editor. At this point, all is ok. I mean that i write the "ã" or "ç" directly from keyboard, not like \~{a}. To compile correctly these characteres, at the begining of document, i load the portuguese packages with: \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[portuges]{babel} But, when i compile the document (with the command line latex file.tex), the portuguese characteres don't result correctly. I've done the same document, with the same portuguese characters, in a the same hp omnibook with redhat 7.3, and the compiled document had become correctly. Sure that if i write the codes like \~{a} or \c{c}, it results good, but is fastidious... Is this a problem of keytables of redhat 8.0? Thanks Armando -- Armando Mateus Ferreira, armando@esa.ipcb.pt Escola Superior Agrária, Castelo Branco, Portugal Tel.: +351 272 339900 Fax.: +351 272 339901 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list