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Babel not working on OS X? [closed]
I'm using a MacBook Air, with OS X, and I have great difficulties in using Latex in my native language (serbian).
If I use the standard babel package in TexShop:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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2answers
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How to make a given thesis template compatible with German umlauts (error with Unicode char)
To Thesis.tex (of Sunil Patel's Thesis Template.zip) I added these two lines (to allow for German special characters):
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % my edit
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % my edit
in ...
4
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Can I make LuaLaTeX use \input files that are ANSI encoded?
I include/\input automatically generated files (tables generated by Stata) into my main document. I would like to compile that document with LuaLaTeX. Unfortunately the generated files are ...
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OS X: umlauts in UTF8-NFD yield “Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:̈ not set up for use with LaTeX”
After switching to OS X one of the first things I had to learn the hard way is that many non-ASCII characters, such as the German ü can be encoded in (at least) two different forms in UTF8:
U+00FC ...
9
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Encoding of non-ASCII characters (Umlauts) in \jobname
I need to parse \jobname to extract some metadata (such as the subject of a letter) that is encoded in the filename of the .tex file. The filenames are not restricted to ASCII, but maybe any UTF8 ...
7
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How to work with two encodings?
I'll try to explain my problem here. I know that there are many posts dealing with this but I'm still confused.
We have many files from different machines with different systems. The important is:
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7
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1answer
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How to change a .tex file's input encoding system (preferably to UTF-8)?
I've been trying to use the hyphenation patterns embedded in the file dehyphtex.tex, which is part of the hyphen-german package. Unfortunately, the file seems to be encoded in a system that's neither ...
4
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2answers
301 views
Why can't I use 𝔽?
I can't figure out why LaTeX won't let me use the 𝔽 symbol (U+1D53D, mathematical double-stuck capital F). When I try, I get the error Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:𝔽 not set up for use ...
1
vote
1answer
394 views
encoding problem
I'm trying to write a program in Python that exports data into PDF. Unfortunately, the well known reportlab module is not available on Python 3. (What a shame.) So I have decided to generate TEX files ...
9
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2answers
481 views
How can I get utf8 character
I want to make cross references for sections to be symbols but after using the description given I got error report saying keyboard character used is undefined in inputencoding 'utf8'. What might be ...
7
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2answers
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Pi, Kappa, Latin Small Letter Long S: problems with UTF8
I'm using Springers svmono for a book with many mathematical symbols and special characters.
There are quite a few problems with characters that are simply not printed (using pdfLatex), so I tried ...
2
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1answer
702 views
Extended ASCII characters in LaTeX document
I need to display a few extended ASCII characters and this is what I have coded so far.
\documentclass[a4paper , 12pt]{report}
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
...
10
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2answers
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How can I tell LaTeX that an \input file is in a different encoding from inputenc?
I'm currently writing a .tex report with my wife. She's on a Windows machine and I'm running Linux over here; we've decided to encode our report in ISO-8859-1 (i.e., we use ...
1
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1answer
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using texlive:latex/pdflatex/xelatex and shebang (jobname)
I'm wondering, why my minimal example (in file shebang.tex)
%& -job-name=test
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hidiho
\end{document}
will always (no matter if using latex, ...
7
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3answers
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encoding problem with \verbatiminput : Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
I'm trying to import some logs files using \verbatiminput to do a automatic report from our logs. I got some encoding problem.
My objective: import some logs files with various special char (included ...
4
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1answer
611 views
\SweaveInput{…} with UTF-8 encoding?
Some hack here.
In ?RweaveLatex manual, I found only paragraph about encoding in UTF-8 but considering Windows users:
The use of fancy quotes (see ‘sQuote’) can cause problems when
setting R ...
4
votes
1answer
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my french é is being shown as a weird Ãl’
I'm writing a Dutch / French document, so I defined
\usepackage[dutch,french,british]{babel}
in my headers, but my french é is being shown as a weird Ãl’.
I tried changing the encoding in ...
5
votes
1answer
1k views
What is wrong with my cyrillic text?
This is the document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
This text is in Russian: проверка.
\end{document}
This is what TeXLive on Mac OS ...
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7answers
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utf8 or latin1 encoding - german
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
or
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
I write in german if that matters.
pro and contra?
