Thank you Tadziu, I was using gedit with utf-8. Thank you Werner. Using -k, the error message is still there. It doesn't matter, using dvips, I could turn the dvi-file into .ps.
Cheers Gregoire Le mardi 30 décembre 2014 à 19:26 +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann a écrit : > > I get an error message saying: > > "the file you want open contains non-valid characters". > > Hmmm. I can't reproduce this. What locale are you using (LANG, LC_CTYPE)? > > > > I know Latex only a little bit. > > But this doesn't like an input-file for Latex. > > DVI is the *output* format of TeX. > > It's purpose in the TeX world is similar to the ditroff intermediate format > you get with "groff -Z" in the troff world. > > >