{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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Seqsplit problems with UTF8
I'm using seqsplit to split long words within cells of a longtable. I'm using utf8x and ucs packages too. I'm generating PDFs out of those .tex files.
When words have UTF-8 characters, the first one ...
5
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1answer
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Can't Use 'ŋ' In My LaTeX Document
I am creating a textbook for a constructed language of mine. It's alphabet contains the letter 'ŋ', which LaTeX does not seem to like. For example:
\ae{}r\ng{} & past participle & He had ...
6
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why “ff” displays strange using unicode encoding vs. iso-8859-1 in HTML output from tex4ht?
I understand that one should (?) be using UNICODE for html. But using this with tex4ht, always makes "ff" look strange. Why does this happen for "ff"? and based on this test below, should one instead ...
1
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1answer
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Problem after copying text: inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
I have a LaTeX document, that can be compiled without any problems, but after copying some text into the document, I'm getting a huge amount of errors that say:
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode ...
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1answer
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How to get UTF-8 output with tex4ht under MikTeX 2.9?
Compiling this MWE (mwe.tex)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[greek,italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\latintext chars with àccéènts
greek chars \greektext ασδφγη
...
5
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Declare additional Unicode characters in verbatim environments in a Pandoc-generated file
I generate a PDF document via LaTeX with Pandoc. I want to use some additional characters in verbatim environments that are not available by default. Here's a sample input:
Math: $\downarrow$
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6
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1answer
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Are true glyphs used for accented characters, when input as escaped codes?
I know that in the early days of TeX, some characters outside the standard ascii where typeset by quite dirty hacks. For example, in my language (Polish), we have an "a with a downward hook" (ą) and ...
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math/logic character \exists renders OK in editor, but faults when compiling [closed]
The fault message below:
lyx could not find command for character "$\exists$" (code point 0*2203)
This character renders OK in lyx editor, I pick it from lyx math miscellaneous, it's the first ...
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Sage + Latex - How to change a font for axes label?
I use Sage and LaTeX and when I do this:
\begin{sagesilent}
p2 = list_plot(zip(H, f(5)), True, color='blue', axes_labels=[u'$H,$ км',u'$\mu, c$'])
p2.fontsize(14)
\end{sagesilent}
and run sage ...
4
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2answers
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Problem with character placement (XeLaTeX, Linux Libertine and Unicode)
The following test document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{document}
aɻ
\end{document}
displays the second character above, instead of after ...
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1answer
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“č” character in the word “Koláč” is not output
I am having problems with the "č" character in the word "Koláč" when typesetting cooking recipes. I am using XeTeX right now. Here is my MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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3answers
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Which Unicode fonts are available with grades/optical sizes comparable to Donald Knuth's awesome eight grades in Computer Modern Roman?
Which Unicode fonts are available with grades/optical sizes comparable to Donald Knuth's awesome eight grades in Computer Modern Roman?
It would be great to get at least 3 options!
This question is ...
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2answers
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LaTeX-Font with all UTF8 symbols defined
I'm writing a program in Java which generates a PDF for something using LaTeX. In this PDF I have to include arbitrary Unicode Characters which I get from a File.
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1answer
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How can I make German characters from \input file display correctly?
I'm working with a Rnw file in RStudio and knitr.
Everything works correctly so far, but I stumbled upon a problem when I included a chapter to the report that is written in German.
I wrote the ...
6
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1answer
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How can I 'compile' LaTeX snippets to (unicode) plain text?
I have a bunch of LaTeX snippets which I'd like to convert, as faithfully as possible, to Unicode strings.
(In fact, these are title of papers from a bibliographic database, which I'd like to use as ...
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1answer
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How to use a ballot character instead of a bullet? [duplicate]
I want to use the ballot box character instead of a bullet in an itemize environment.
How many wives did Henry VIII had?
☐ 3
☐ 6
☐ 8
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2answers
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using CJK text inside mecard produces errors
I am trying to use \psbarcode to generate a MECARD QR code with CJK characters in the name field.
tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\usepackage{pstricks}
...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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votes
2answers
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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?
...
4
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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 ...
2
votes
1answer
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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
...
4
votes
1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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votes
2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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 ...
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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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 ...
