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I want to write an "ï" in my document (French is a hard language).

I've tried \''{\i} and I've placed the brackets in many other ways but it still doesn't work... Please help me!

My 'configuration': 

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage]{article}

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  
\usepackage[frenchb,german]{babel}  
\usepackage{chemmacros}  
\usepackage{color}  
\usepackage{fancyhdr}  
\usepackage{amsmath}  
\usepackage{siunitx}  
\usepackage[backend=bibtex8,style=authortitle-ticomp,doi=false]{biblatex}

(I want to write the word "éthanoïque")

Thank you in advance if you have any answer (and please forgive my bad English)

egreg
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Tak Kento
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    \"i should work; note the double quote, not two single quotes. – egreg Oct 03 '17 at 21:19
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    Can you provide a full MWE/MWEB? Did you really type \''{\i}, i.e. two single quotes? Correct would be \"{\i} with one double quote. – moewe Oct 03 '17 at 21:20
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    Note that some editors might convert " (double quotes) into different quotes automatically (TeXworks can do that, for example: Edit > Preferences > Editor > Smart Quotes mode > none). You'd have to disable this feature to get ", or copy it to the document. – moewe Oct 03 '17 at 21:22
  • Welcome to TeX SX! Why don't you simply type ï? – Bernard Oct 03 '17 at 21:23
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    you could use \"i or save your document in UTF-8 encoding and then change \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} then you can use ï in the document – David Carlisle Oct 03 '17 at 21:24
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    You are using latin1 encoding, so simply type the word "éthanoïque" in this encoding. All characters are included in this encoding. Where is problem? – wipet Oct 03 '17 at 21:33
  • as wipet and Bernard said ï is in latin1 (I was thinking you needed utf-8) using utf-8 is a good idea for other reasons but not needed here. You can just type ï directly. – David Carlisle Oct 03 '17 at 21:36
  • Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See minimal working example (MWE). – Henri Menke Oct 03 '17 at 21:59
  • @DavidCarlisle - Are you sure its OK to just type ï directly if the input encoding is latin1? The answer I posted would seem to suggest otherwise. Or am I overlooking something? – Mico Oct 04 '17 at 05:37
  • @Mico yes it works – David Carlisle Oct 04 '17 at 06:49
  • Thank you for your answers! egreg's solution worked well, and thank you moewe for the advice, I've just modified my settings. I can't write ï, even with latin1, it might be a problem with TeXworks. Thanks once again, you're an awesome community! – Tak Kento Oct 04 '17 at 14:43
  • I still can't write the double quote, I think this is due to my keyboard... – Tak Kento Oct 04 '17 at 14:47
  • Have tried using % !TEX encoding = ISO-8859-1 at the very begining of the document? You can set TexWorks for ISO-8859-1 in preferences/editor too. (Mais j'utiliserais utf8.) – poch Oct 06 '17 at 07:02
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about a simple typo '' (two single quotes) vs " (one double quote). – moewe Nov 15 '17 at 16:58

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