{unicode} is for questions about Unicode (an international standard for character encoding) and its implementations. For questions about input encodings in general, use {encodings}. For questions specifically about the `inputenc` package, use {inputenc}.
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unicode char causing troubles within subfiles [duplicate]
I have an issue that only happens when I try to sepparate my latex code in many subfiles. If I let all the "special characters" in the main file, there's no problem, but
if I move them to a subfile ...
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How set hyphen (divis) to specific unicode char
I need a specific divis / hyphen character or more than one randomly show
This code is not working at the present. Does anyone have any suggestions?
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{blindtext}
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How do I type a Chinese dash in XeLaTex
How do I write a Chinese dash, a two-fullwidth-character long dash?
「——」 looks ugly typset with XeLaTex and the font that I am using (The two parts are not connected and there is a gap in the ...
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Batch generated file produces encoding error with latex
The goal:
This is for an exam. I have a program which should be compiled and executed by batch script. Another batch script calls that first batch an writes the output to a .txt file. Then the ...
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Error while printing chinese character
I am printing a document with Chinese and getting some errors. Below is a MWE with the character causing problems.
\documentclass[11pt,table,a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
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How do I typeset unicode characters with TexShop?
I've tried pasting "圍棋 (wéiqí)" into my editor, but after typesetting I see only "?? (wiq)" in the PDF. What do I need to change to fix these characters?
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Error with ASCII characters [closed]
I have an apostrophe as in educator's, which is displayed as eductaor's and prevents TeX from generating a pdf.
I have used this as well:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
how can I fix that?
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getting rid of unicode character 200F
I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX and recognised that quite often a character occurs in the resulting pdf that is invisible in the sourcetext -- it is unicode character 200f: the right-to-left mark. ...
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How to typeset Tibetan in XeLatex with correct linebreaks?
I am trying to typeset Tibetan language in a document, but the text does not wrap at the margin. I think this could be easily fixed if I tell XeLaTeX to recognise the Tibetan tsheg character ('TIBETAN ...
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Syriac Abbreviation Mark
I'm trying to implement in XeLaTeX the Syriac Abbreviation Mark (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Abbreviation_Mark).
The code I came up with is the following:
\catcode`^^^^070f=13
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Using Greek letters in LaTeX tables
I have the following Rnw document which I intend should produce a small table with "a b c" and "α β γ". At the moment, the encoding seems to be causing problems. The funny thing is that the output in ...
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bookmarks: diacritics, umlauts and special characters [closed]
Why are the bookmarks in my pdf documents (created by LuaLaTeX) not correct? E.g., I get Faḫr al-DÄ«n al-RĆzÄ« instead of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. In general diacritics, umlauts and special characters ...
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Entering unicode math symbols into LaTeX, direct from keyboard, on a Mac
I would like my LaTeX files to contain Unicode characters. For instance, I want to see
∃x．x ⟶ β
in my text editor, rather than
\exists x\ldotp x\longrightarrow\beta
Also, I would like to ...
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verbments (listings alternative) and UTF-8
This is a follow-up question to UTF8 for listings
With these MWE I will not see the german umlauts in the resulted pdf (XeLaTeX was used):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbments}
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UTF8 for listings
With German umlauts I have to define these characters (Typesetting UTF8 listings with German Umlaute) and the following MWE is working:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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How to include the € symbol? [duplicate]
In my *.cls class file I loaded
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
(does the order of the two matter?)
and get the following error message: Command \texteuro unavailable in ...
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Enter single unicode code point in (dvi)latex and latin1 input
For various reasons, I'm stuck with (dvi)latex and inputencoding latin1. I still want to enter unicode codepoints (I have the hex/decimal numbers ready).
I have seen ...
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Unicode char \u8:动 not set up for use with LaTeX
I m generating one chinese report and getting following error.
Unicode char \u8:动 not set up for use with LaTeX.
i m using including following packages.
\usepackage[LGRx,T1]{fontenc}
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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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4answers
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Non-ASCII characters in Biblatex
I am using biblatex with backend=biber and the following .bib file:
@article{concellon_synthesis_2006,
title = {Synthesis of Enantiopure ({αS,βS)-} or ({αR,βS)-β-Amino} Alcohols by Complete ...
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error using special characters in in biblatex with LuaLaTeX
I am using LuaLaTeX and biblatex which the biblatex manual says should be able to compile utf. At the bottom of this message is a minimal non-working example. In the final PDF it just deletes all the ...
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representing literal characters in a \newcommand or \def
Consider this short LaTeX document:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
\def\name{...}
\begin{document}
Hello: \name
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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 ...
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Use pdfLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX [closed]
Is there a way to generate a pdf file of the following LaTeX document by using pdfLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
\documentclass[10pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
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UTF-8 (but not in current font) character in newcommand
I'm trying to define a new single-character LaTeX command (to insert a 1 pt space with \kern1pt) and want to use one of the characters obtained through the AltGr key on a US International keyboard ...
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! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:äöü not set up for use with Latex — is my latex broken [duplicate]
When trying to compile the following document with xelatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\begin{document}
äöüÄÖÜ
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Is there a way to insert arbitrary RTF in latex2rtf output?
I want to insert the Han ideograph 命 in my LaTeX PDF and my RTF output. I can't figure an easy way to this. So for the PDF I am going to be inserting a PDF file that includes the 命. For the RTF file I ...
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How can I enable non-standard characters such as blanks or german Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) for hyperref labels?
I am trying to write a small package that (as a minor sub-feature) incorporates some usage of hyperref to get internal cross-references. To be precise, I want to do provide functionality like the ...
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How to include a Chinese paper in reference via bibtex?
When including the following entry in my ref.bib
@article{chen2012,
title={基于电无级变速器的内燃机最优控制策略及整车能量管理},
author={陈骁 and 黄声华 and 万山明 and 庞珽},
journal={电工技术学报},
volume={27},
number={2},
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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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Latex textfield unicode problem and Xelatex hyperref textfield not working in tabular section
I've tried to add russian letters in textfield, but it gives:
T2ACYRI T2Acyrm T2Acyrya
Then I used xelatex but generated forms are not working. What to do?
And this form works without tabular. ...
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odd displays of accentuated characters in lstlisting environment
when i try to write accentuated characters (éà...) in a lstlisting environment,
hence :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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Č doesn't sort in bibliography correctly but {\v C} does
I have an example here of an article document using pdflatex, bibtex, and natbib, where the Č character for Čermak isn't sorted in the bibliography correctly. I don't understand why not. Both files ...
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How can I access a specific glyph in LuaLaTeX/Fontspec?
The OTF version of Minion Pro contains several Dingbats glyphs I would like to access. Some of them are not unicode, so I can not just copy the specific unicode character I want to access into my text ...
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Unicode characters do not appear in IEEE style bibliography
I cannot get Unicode characters to appear in the IEEE style bibliography with biblatex and biber. Shown below are minimal working examples.
\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[style=ieee, ...
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BibTeX error “inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX” [closed]
So I am trying to get BibTex to work and I run into the above error: . After a quick search in here I found that it is a problem with extra space in the BibTex file that could be solved by adding the ...
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How to map unicode characters to math symbols?
I have documentation with some mathematics, that I want to convert via LaTeX, but I'd also like to keep it as much readable in source as possible (as it's more for me than anybody else). Since I can ...
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MonTeX (mls, manju, mongolian) with Latin script with diacritics
I am using the montex package to type text in Manchu (manju). In my documents, I also use Latin script with diacritics. When I load montex, these diacritics no longer appear, and when characters with ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Remove all Russian symbols from a PDF under Windows
I have a very weird task. There is a compiled PDF document with guidelines on a mathematical subject. It is in Russian, hence it contains a lot of Russian symbols in plain text and a lot of ...
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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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Unicode characters in pdflatex output using hexcode without UTF-8 input
I want to use Unicode characters (for Korean language, i.e. Hangul:
U+AC00 - U+D7A3; maybe also U+1100 - U+11FF) in the output of
latex(/pdflatex) while the LaTeX source file should be coded in
7 bit ...
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What is the state of support for (Unicode) Indic scripts in Context?
I have used XeTeX for typesetting a book using Unicode Malayalam. It is working perfectly and the production is fine.
Reading about ConteXt, I learn it is more suitable and flexible for book ...
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Emoji Characters
I'm trying to display Emoji Characters inside my XeLaTeX Document.
It seems to work for some glyphs like the numbers and pound sign but not for all.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
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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 ...
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Unicode in the equations: pros and cons
Is there any pros and cons for using of Unicode (and vice versa) in LaTeX equations?
Consider two examples:
\lim_{h→0}∫_{x_0}^{x_0 + h}\frac{f(t)}{h} = f(x_0)
x_0 ⇔ ∀ 𝜀 > 0, ∃ 𝛿 > ...
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utf8 characters
I would like to include the output of the npm list command in a latex verbatim block:
jeroen@jeroen-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ npm install d3
jeroen@jeroen-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ npm list
/home/jeroen/Desktop
└─┬ ...
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Support for all writing systems in a single document — more than just one or two Unicode planes simultaneously
I am working on a document that contains a growing number of representatives from different writing systems. It is mostly an English document, and I have been using the following to ensure that CJK ...
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Xindy, french, UTF-8 and Mac
I'am on MacOsX with a MacTeX installation.
I would like to use xindy to automatically make an index of my bibliographical references, which can have some diacritics.
I work with XeLaTeX, so in ...
