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For German texts I use T1 fontenc so that the search option in my pdf preview can also find the umlauts. When I count the number of words using TeXcount, it tells me that the text is encoded in utf8. Does that mean that I don't need utf8 inputenc at all when I use T1 fontenc?

Schubladenzieher
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    If you are using a recent distribution, inputenc with a UTF8 encoding is built into the format, and therefore doesn't need to be loaded. But this is not because you loaded fontenc. The two packages do different things. See fontenc vs inputenc for an explanation of the differences. – Alan Munn Jul 01 '21 at 21:25
  • You said, that with a recent TeX distribution utf8 is assumed: But if I use an English text without T1 fontenc or utf8 inputenc, TeXcount tells me that the text is encoded in ascii. – Schubladenzieher Jul 01 '21 at 21:26
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    Perhaps TeXcount is just guessing based on the characters it finds. Your editor determines the encoding of your file, so it's UTF-8 independent of the language you write in for most editors these days, unless you specify otherwise. – Alan Munn Jul 01 '21 at 21:28
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    For a discussion of fontenc versus inputenc, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44699/4427 that shows how the two packages address different issues. On the other hand, nowadays inputenc is only needed if one uses an input encoding different from UTF-8. Ask the maintainer of TeXcount to update to the current setup. – egreg Jul 01 '21 at 21:32
  • ASCII is also valid UTF-8. If your English text doesn’t use any characters that aren’t on a US keyboard, its UTF-8 encoding will be the same as its encoding in ASCII. But that’s also true of Latin-1 or CP1252, so a scan can’t tell which of those it was saved as. – Davislor Jul 02 '21 at 05:14

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