Michael Friendly <friendly <at> yorku.ca> writes:
> 
> > \usepackage[cp1252]{inputenc}
> > \inputencoding{cp1252}
  I usually just use 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
and that seems to work fine.  Couldn't give you a detailed description
of my TeX setup though (standard installation on Ubuntu 8.10) ...
  cheers
   Ben Bolker