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I am using Texmaker, and I am having a problem about the use of language packages. I have tried to use the Italian Babel, writing the following:

\usepackage[italian,english]{babel}

and then either

\selectlanguage{Italian} 
text

or 

\begin{otherlanguage*}{italian} 
text
\end{otherlanguage*}

but neither work, and my text is not showing the symbols proper of Italian language like a,è,ì,ò,ù. Can you help me?

TakeMeToTheMoon
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    Welcome to TeX.SE! If you are typing them directly (á instead of \'a) you need \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} (assuming your editor is utf8 encoded). Or a very recent LaTeX kernel. – campa May 16 '18 at 15:59
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    Did you write in your preamble \usepackage[utf8]{\inputenc} and \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}? – Bernard May 16 '18 at 15:59
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    Off-topic: Note that TeXmaker is just a front-end to a TeX distribution. It doesn't do any typesetting chores. Those are handled by the "back-end", most importantly, something like pdfLaTeX. – Mico May 16 '18 at 16:01
  • Ooooh, you see. I got it completely wrong. You solved everything, thank you. Just to know, then - what's the languagepackage for? – TakeMeToTheMoon May 16 '18 at 16:07
  • Hyphenation and other culture-specific things. Welcome to TeX SX, by the way! – Philipp May 16 '18 at 16:08

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