LaTeX e lettere accentate

[var]

salve a tutti,

sto usando TeXnicCenter versione 1 beta 7.01 e MiKTeX 2.5 sotto WindowsXP e non riesco a far visualizzare caratteri accentati (tipo "è").
questo è un semplice listato:

% inizio preambolo

\documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

% fine preambolo

\begin{document}
Questo è un documento.
\end{document}

e questo è il log prodotto:

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5 Beta 12) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2006.11.5)  5 NOV 2006 21:29
entering extended mode
**C:/Documents*and*Settings/Antonio/Desktop/documentoesempio.tex
("C:\Documents and Settings\Antonio\Desktop\documentoesempio.tex"
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, french, italian, loaded.
("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\latex\base\size12.clo"
File: size12.clo 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty"
Package: babel 2005/05/21 v3.8g The Babel package

("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\generic\babel\italian.ldf"
Language: italian 2005/02/05 v1.2q Italian support from the babel system

("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\generic\babel\babel.def"
File: babel.def 2005/05/21 v3.8g Babel common definitions
\babel@savecnt=\count87
\U@D=\dimen103
)
Package babel Info: Making " an active character on input line 91.
))
No file documentoesempio.aux.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for LGR/cmr/m/n on input line 8.
LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for LGR+cmr on input line 8.
("C:\Programmi\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\generic\babel\lgrcmr.fd"
File: lgrcmr.fd 2001/01/30 v2.2e Greek Computer Modern
)
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 8.
Missing character: There is no è in font cmr12!
 [1

{psfonts.map}]
(documentoesempio.aux) ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 610 strings out of 95402
 7369 string characters out of 1187161
 56576 words of memory out of 1060257
 3817 multiletter control sequences out of 60000
 3938 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 24i,4n,24p,203b,111s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,32768s
PDF statistics:
 7 PDF objects out of 300000
 0 named destinations out of 300000
 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
<C:/Programmi/MiKTeX 2.5/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.p
fb>
Output written on documentoesempio.pdf (1 page, 5301 bytes).

il file PDF viene prodotto, ma senza quella "è".
il problema dovrebbe essere indicato dal messaggio "Missing character: There is no è in font cmr12!", ma non so come venirne a capo. ho anche decommentato l'italiano nel file language.dat e aggiornato la lista dei pacchetti, senza ottenere alcun risultato.

come risolvo?
grazie mille. :)

[var]

up

[var]

risolto, è bastato aggiungere

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

nel preambolo.