Latex character error while splitting chapters
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I'm writing a Latex document and everything works fine, but as I try to split the document chapters in different .tex files, I receive several errors related to the characters in the document (and with the encoding, I suppose). In the document I use a lot of accented letters with direct insertion, such as "ì" or "è". I used \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} to let this work and it do work as long as the chapter are all together in the main file. But as I try to copy the first chapter in a separate file and use \input or \include in the main file, I get a series of errors related to the characters.
Why does that happens?
thanks ;)