According to Jan Lehnardt:
I am writing a LaTeX document in UTF8 and \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} does it for me. Do you have encoding of the file set to UTF8 as well? If not, try File->Re-Open With Encoding -> UTF8
Here is what I use:
% UTF-8 stuff \usepackage[notipa]{ucs} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp}