{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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mathaccent skewchar with XeTeX
How can I get the dots in the correct position:
\font\test="XITS Math:script=math;mapping=italic" \skewchar\test=127
\XeTeXmathchardef\beta="0"1`β
\def\ddot{\XeTeXmathaccent"7"1"0308}
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1answer
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Converting LaTeX commands in BibTeX title field to UTF-8?
I've been Googling and downloading different software for the last two days and I'm not getting very far. I was referred to this site and it looks like a great resource. Hopefully I can get the ...
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2answers
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Change XeTeX fonts automatically depending on Unicode blocks
I would like to move from p(La)TeX (which was a TeX system specifically tailored to Japanese in a pre-Unicode era) to Xe(La)TeX, and I'm having a problem.
In p(La)TeX, Japanese fonts are only used ...
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Is there an Unicode code point for umlauts marked with a small e instead of a diaresis? [closed]
The original way to denote an umlaut in German was to write a small e on top of the umlauted letter, like in the second row of the image below. Is this form of the umlaut availabe via Unicode? In ...
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2answers
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How to use Unicode characters with Sphinx rst documents and properly generate PDF files?
I discovered that if I use some Unicode characters inside .rst files, I will loose them when I convert the documentation to pdf using Sphinx.
Example chars: "șț".
When I run make latexpdf I get a ...
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1answer
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Search and find an old style numeral in a pdf
I am compiling this tex file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hfoldsty}
\begin{document}
1 $1$
\end{document}
with pdflatex and open the resulting pdf with evince. If I search the digit one (1), ...
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Which dot character to use in which context?
Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode. These are the ones that are ambiguous to me:
interpunct, middle dot (·) · · U+00B7 "midpoint (in typography)"
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1answer
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Replacement for CJK's \Unicode macro
I need a replacement for the \Unicode macro from CJK. It takes two decimal numbers as arguments and inserts #1*256 + #2 into the token stream (or something like that; it's a way to write Unicode ...
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2answers
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Replacing Unicode non-breakable spaces by normal spaces
I am using the Neo keyboard layout, which uses all kinds of modifier keys to input all kinds of characters (e.g. Greek letters and mathematical symbols). It also has shift+Mod3+space mapped to Unicode ...
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2answers
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How do I use locale numbering for page numbers, footers etc.?
I am new to LaTeX and was wondering if it is possible to use another language for page numbers (and any other automatic numbering).
I read here: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/pagestyl.htm
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1answer
298 views
LaTeX and Glyph Scaling for Justified Text
I am very new to LaTeX - and I am not sure if Latex has the capability to do what I want, so I thought I would ask here.
I am working with publishing books in Khmer (the language of Cambodia) in ...
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1answer
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hyphenation and utf8
from Tex FAQ - hyphenation I see that trying to help Latex in correctly hyphenating words won't work when the utf8 encoding is used. Is there a work around?
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1answer
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high and low CJK codepoints in a single XeLaTeX document
I often require a combination of CJK characters with both low and high codepoints in the same line of text. (Here "low" means "in the Basic Multilingual Plane" or BMP, with codepoint lower than hex ...
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1answer
655 views
UTF-8 (BMP character set) support in listings.
I'm submitting a paper to a journal using LaTeX, and I need to be able to write Unicode symbols into listings. So far, I've been able to get by with the moreverb package. It's listing environment is ...
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Editors supporting unicode
For some reason it seems that my favourite editor TeXnicCenter doesn't support unicode (correct me please if I'm wrong, which wouldn't be the first time).
Can anyone recommend an editor which does, ...
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1answer
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pdflatex.exe failed to compile an input file with BOM (Byte Order Mark) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX baffled by BOM---Unicode's byte order mark.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{CJK}
\usepackage{pinyin}
\begin{document}
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4answers
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utf8x vs. utf8 (inputenc)
I normally use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} for my latex document but on this site i saw a lot of code with \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}.
What are the differences between the 2 options ?
Is there one ...
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0answers
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Display invisible characters in vim [closed]
I get the error message
Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.
Now I suspect that this is due to an invisible character. The command :set list doesn't show anything suspicious and ...
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4answers
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Converting LaTeX into Unicode for email
My standard procedure for writing mathematical email has been to use pidgin-LaTeX for some time now, and many of those I communicate with do the same. However, someone I know has recently started a ...
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2answers
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How does one publish/promote a new package?
I just took all the wonderful information supplied here, and wrote a small package that makes it possible to use Unicode characters for section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph, subparagraph and ...
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2answers
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Fix nested section numbers in RTL languages with polyglossia.
The third subsection in the second subsection of the first section should be numbered
1.2.3. This holds also for RTL languages, since numbers, including Dewey numbering is still LTR even in an RTL ...
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3answers
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LaTeX baffled by BOM---Unicode's byte order mark.
Unicode applies the convention of using a byte order mark as signature at the beginning of a text stream, identifying the encoding used within it. The following three bytes at the beginning of a file: ...
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votes
1answer
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Invoking a macro with arguments in the body of \DeclareUnicodeCharacter.
I would like to define the Unicode section character, U+00A7 to be equivalent to the \section macro. What I have now is:
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{167}{\csname section\endcsname}
but this does not ...
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2answers
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Mapping from Unicode character to LaTeX-Symbol for BibTeX?
I'm writing a little BibTeX exporter for the publication database of my institute. We do have a lot of authors with all kind of weird characters in their names, which get the "WTF is ...
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0answers
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Font Appears different [closed]
Hi I am using Sanskrit2003 font and it appears with additional circle in TeXWorks, just to verify I copied it to MS Word & open office and it appeared fine in word.
I am attaching an image to ...
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1answer
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How to Use Unicode Font with \polter command
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{holtpolt}
\begin{document}
$\polter{abc}{def}$
\end{document}
Hi, I have a need to produce something thats shown in the above example however I want to use ...
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4answers
649 views
The § character
I need information about § character. I have seen it used for numbering (equivalent to nº) and as a separator. Which is its name or code? Where can it be used?
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Use unicode font for cyrillic in gnuplot
Why I need to do this? I'n writting my diploma in laTeX and almost finish them, but I want to use in graph labels and legend the same font that LateX uses.
As I know, the default LaTeX font in CM, so ...
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2answers
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How to input foreign unicode characters into XeLaTeX?
Friends,
I am working on a XeLaTeX document. I am almost done with my document, but I need to input text from a foreign language. I am running Mac OS X. I go to Preferences > Language & Text and ...
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No simple UTF8 support in latex?
The following should look good in your browser, AND compile in Latex looking beautiful right?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
UTF-8 test:
\begin{verbatim}
logic: ...
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3answers
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Hyperref: Scandinavian characters (æø) don't work in \url, hyperlink is wrong
Background
A while ago it became possible to use the letters æ, ø and å in URLs, and some websites, like the encyclopaedia Store Norske Leksikon, has made use of this.
Recently, a question was ...
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XeLaTeX, WinEdt 6.0 and UTF-8
I'm using WinEdt 6.0 and need to write German umlaute. Using XeLaTeX, i need to save the tex-file in utf-8 to have native support for this - does anyone know how to tweak WinEdt so that it saves in ...
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votes
2answers
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LaTeX: UTF8 and algorithm2e clash
I have this input file in utf8 encoding:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}
\begin{document}
\begin{procedure}
foo
\caption{ö()}
\end{procedure}
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UTF8 not working in LuaTeX in TeXLive 2010
I've been trying to set a document using lualatex in my TeXLive 2010 installation. Unfortunately, the non-ASCII characters are left out from the output. In the following minimal document produces a ...
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1answer
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Arrows with Text (Using Unicode Devanagari fonts)
\documentclass[fleqn,12pt,a4paper]{article} % normal
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{color}
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Asana Math Oversized “Big operators”
I am having this problem when using Asana Math with XeLaTeX + unicode-math, if you see
the pdf found in the download link AsanaProb.zip you can see that \bigcap produces much bigger character than it ...
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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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“inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8” error while trying to write a degree symbol (invisible character)
No matter how I try to do it I always get the following error :
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.
I have tried using $^{\circ}$, \deg, \textdegree, ...
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votes
1answer
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Math italics with unicode-math.
I'm using Tex Live 2010. Here's the example I want to discuss.
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{amsmath}
\RequirePackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
...
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1answer
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How do I convert a character to a numeric value?
Now that I've gotten Will Robertson's excellent unicode-math package working to change the colour and style of letters in my mathematics (trust me, there is a reason) thanks to his answer to my ...
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2answers
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unicode \begin{verbatim} with cmtt?
A lot of leading-edge programming languages (like Coq and Agda) allow nearly unrestricted use of unicode symbols in program text, so you can have math characters like $\otimes$ (Unicode U+2A02) as ...
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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?
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Glyph insertion
I use linux and have available to me the "compose" key available and thus can type characters like °, ß, ï, į, ḯ, etc.
Is it inherently "bad" to use the compose key to insert the characters, should I ...
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LaTeX/XeTeX setup Tamil/Indic languages
I use TexMaker and LyX in Ubuntu. I'd like to typeset Tamil/Telugu/Hindi text, and so far I've been unsuccessful.
Please suggest me a working TeX/LaTeX/variants setup for Indic languages, especially ...
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Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX
How do I enter Unicode characters in LaTeX? What packages do I need to install and what escape sequence do I type to specify Unicode characters in an ASCII source file?
