There are a number of ways to handle UTF-8 in LaTeX, but the methods are all somewhat irritating in various ways. I haven't had a lot of luck with inputenc. M

There are a number of ways to handle UTF-8 in LaTeX, but the methods are all somewhat irritating in various ways. I haven't had a lot of luck with inputenc. My understanding is that it breaks things up into escape sequences internally which is neat but doesn't give you some things that would be nice because your default fonts don't support it. I have used xetex a bit more and found it more helpful. However it has some other rough corners Luatex also handles UTF8 natively. Answer is "it's complicated." And hence your solutions depend entirely on what you are trying to do.