character encoding is the transfer from one set of characters into another

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convert matematical pi 6 font (type1) into *.vf files

I have bought the mathematical-pi font volume in type1 format and I want to use it in LaTeX. I already know that I have to rename *.pfb and *.afm files using the instructions described in Karl Berry' ...
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copy&paste: diacritics and special characters

Why can't I correctly copy&paste from my pdf documents (created by LuaLaTeX)? E.g., I get Faḫr al-Din̄ al-Rāzī instead of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Surprisingly, most other things (including Arabic ...
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Why is there a word boundary in “ßv”?

I have made a blackletter font (http://www.linta.de/Jena1330, although this may instead be a generic thing, which just usually does not show up due to absence of initial and final replacements) for ...
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Encoding problems (switching between Japanese and English encoding)

I seem to have messed up the encoding of my tex document in TexShop and I wonder if anyone can explain to me what's going on? I had a short document which was fine, until I needed to add some ...
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Option clash for package inputenc when using Lyx with LaTeX class that already uses inputenc

I use Lyx to edit document whose class declares \usepackage[latin2]{inputenc} in its .cls file. While I only use languages for which Lyx uses the same encoding it only adds the same command ...