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My LaTeX document does not properly represent German character. In my opinion, I have my preamble set correctly. what needs to be set correctly, so that the characters such as Ä, ß, etc. are represented?

My preamble:

\usepackage{lmodern}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setlength{\parskip}{\medskipamount}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{nomencl}

and the document settings:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,english,ngerman,intoc,bibliography=totoc,index=totoc,BCOR10mm,captions=tableheading,titlepage,fleqn]{scrbook}
Jodka Lemon
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Ramosta
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    without any example of your input or output or error messages it will be difficult to help. Are you sure your file is latin-9 encoded rather than,say, utf-8 ? – David Carlisle Dec 20 '14 at 11:14
  • Echoing David's comment, it could well be that your document's input encoding is utf8 rather than latin1. Change the argument of the inputenc package and try to recompile your document. – Mico Dec 20 '14 at 11:21

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Using pdflatex the following code produces the correct characters, if the file is saved as utf-8. To check this, open up the "save" menu and look an option like encoding(auf Deutsch wahrscheinlich Textcodierung oder sowas). If you use a editor, that is more LaTeX-specific, you may find general encoding settings somewhere else. We can help you with this, but we need to know which software you are using.

Maybe it is possible to get this to work with latin9 as well, but there is no point to do so, because utf-8 is far superior. By the way: It's possible to use every UTF character there is in your code, if you switch from pdflatex to xelatex or lualatex (... at least if you have a font, that has a glyph for this character).

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,english,ngerman,intoc,bibliography=totoc,index=totoc,BCOR10mm,captions=tableheading,titlepage,fleqn]{scrbook}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{lmss}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setlength{\parskip}{\medskipamount}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{nomencl}

\begin{document}
Umlaute: Füße, Räder und Böden.
\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

JBantje
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  • @Ramosta If you are using xelatex remove \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} (the file has to be utf-8 encoded and `inputrnc does nothing useful) – David Carlisle Dec 20 '14 at 12:04
  • xelatex or laualatex require some differences in the preamble, for example the fontspec package replaces fontenc and inputenc, also babel should be replaced by polyglossia. Since you are german, have a look at our latex slides from the workshop we did. It's a rather complete overview over latex and we use lualatex: http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.de/notes.html – MaxNoe Dec 20 '14 at 12:37