TeX complains about a "Package inputenc Error"

Question

Compiling a simple document, I get the following error:

(Tex error image)

On the line 166, there is a \begin{itemize} environment. I tried commenting it out and the error goes away, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that part of code. I'm posting it below (from line 164 to 169):

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}

\item[Presuposiciones] Son aseveraciones no expresadas. Son supuestos que el hablante hace 
sobre lo que probablemente aceptará al oyente sin ponerlo en duda. 
Para que un texto sea coherente que el emisor haya acertado en sus presuposiciones.
\item[Implicaturas] Se relacionan estrechamente con los actos de habla indirectos.
Se trata de las informaciones adicionales contenidas en un enunciado. 

\end{itemize}

\end{document

What's happening?

check your input encoding , it should be utf-8 as there are some utf characters in your latex file — texenthusiast, Jun 27 '12 at 15:26
@texlearner But the rest of the document loads fine. That's why it's weird. I mean, I have characters with accents everywhere. — Alenanno, Jun 27 '12 at 15:27
I have added a minimal working example (I suppose it should work). — Alenanno, Jun 27 '12 at 15:28
Your MWE compiles fine for me. Did you save the file with other encoding than the utf, this error would occur — texenthusiast, Jun 27 '12 at 15:31
@DavidCarlisle Great... I thought it could be something like that! ARGH. — Alenanno, Jun 27 '12 at 15:32
Look at the log file with hexdump and search for \u8:; what are the two bytes following it? — egreg, Jun 27 '12 at 15:35
@egreg A tab space (or what it's called). But I made sure to delete it earlier, perhaps my search wasn't very good. :) — Alenanno, Jun 27 '12 at 15:36
@egreg How not to end up with this type of problem ? Any suggestion — texenthusiast, Jun 27 '12 at 15:41
@texlearner Just explore the line where Tex complains I suppose. :D — Alenanno, Jun 27 '12 at 15:43
@texlearner Use a good editor. The character might have been a "NO-BREAK SPACE" (U+00A0) and it may be difficult to spot. On Emacs it's shown by a thin underscore. — egreg, Jun 27 '12 at 15:44
@egreg is that the reason sometimes people use % characters at the line endings ? — texenthusiast, Jun 27 '12 at 15:55
@texlearner: See Why the end-of-line % in macro definitions?. — Caramdir, Jun 27 '12 at 15:59

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '12 at 15:51

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You have a control character after the full stop after duda. If you delete that then it all seems to work.

answered Jun 27 '12 at 15:51

David Carlisle

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Yes I found it. :) I should have checked better! – Alenanno Jun 27 '12 at 15:53
The '\u8' in the error message might be the clue to this, on another occasion - a backspace crept in, somehow? – Brent.Longborough Jun 27 '12 at 19:24

TeX complains about a "Package inputenc Error"

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