European Accents not showing correctly

Question

When i type " é " directly with the appointed key, or use a key combination of "´ + e" (where I press the ´ first, the character doesn't show up, and then I pres e and the accent appears) it doesn't show in my pdf when i print for feedback.

i'm using TexMaker and have a AZERTY-keyboard (belgian). I've tried to look at a lot of answers already involving UTC8 and \inputenc but with UTC8 the document lay-out just looks horrible... and with inputenc I only get a lot of weird symbols instead of the accented character.

Any way i can fix this without using \´e?

Read this answer and then explain clearly what you have actually done. How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?. If you are using pdflatex you need to load both the inputenc package (with the correct encoding for your file) and the fontenc package (with the [T1] encoding) plus a font that contains the relevant glyphs. — Alan Munn, Dec 21 '15 at 17:14
I use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and insert the à è ì ò ù in the text. — Giacomo Alessandroni, Dec 21 '15 at 17:16

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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You can try to use this preamble:

% !TeX spellcheck = it
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

Of course, you have to change [italian] and it if you use another language.

EDIT

As suggest by Bernard, if you do not use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}:

Words containing accented characters can not be automatically hyphenated.
You can not properly copy/paste such words from the output (DVI/PS/PDF).
Characters like the pipe sign, less than and greater sign give unexpected results in text.

And the \usepackage{lmodern} implement the "Latin Modern" font. Try it and see the difference.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Dec 21 '15 at 17:36

Giacomo Alessandroni

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Somehow this works without making the text al weird. Thanks Giacomo! :). – Espio Auraforce Dec 21 '15 at 17:42
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Nonetheless you should add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage{lmodern} if you want to stick to fonts very similar to the default Computer Modern. – Bernard Dec 21 '15 at 17:46
@Bernard, I have add your informations. Thanks. – Giacomo Alessandroni Dec 21 '15 at 18:02

European Accents not showing correctly

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