[Tex/LaTex] My first beamerposter, portuguese language not working

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I'm trying to make a poster based off the example in this site: http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php and using the this theme http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/download/beamerthemeIcy.sty

When I try changing the title to something with portuguese accents (with [portuguese]{babel}), the output is this

One blank page and some gibberish. Again, I only changed the titled of the exampled posted on that website.

It's my first poster and i'm kinda lost..

forgot to mention: I'm using TeXLive 2010 under Arch Linux

Example:

.tex file http://pastebin.com/HeQe02S2
.sty theme file http://pastebin.com/mHNa0Dg4

This combination isn't working so well for me. Also: I need to use the beta symbol throught the text, but i can't make it Sans Serif (helvet).

Best Answer

Besides loading babel with the portuguese option, you should also add the following to your preamble:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

which fixes the issue with non-ascii characters being displayed as "gibberish" (original comment by Alan Munn) and

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

which is necessary for the hyphenation to work (original comment by Mateus Araújo).

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