{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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“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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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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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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
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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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! 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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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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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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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 ...
4
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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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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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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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inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report.
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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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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Greek pdf bookmarks
I am puzzled with sections titled with Greek characters. They do appear in the pdf's Content list, though not correctly.
For example, in my thesis--written in English with LyX, based on the ...
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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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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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Remapping LaTeX symbol to another unicode value
When compiling the following piece of LaTeX code, the ∖ symbol does not show up.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
...
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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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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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utf8 math characters from source code file with minted in XeLaTeX
I want XeLaTeX/minted to display all my mathematical characters from my .java source file.
More detailed: I file my programming homework in PDF documents in my university. I have been using LaTeX and ...
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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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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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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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Using another font for a glyph that is not available in the current font
I want to declare more than one font so XeTeX can use other fonts when first font did not have a specific glyph. How can I do that? In windows when the current font does not have a glyph, other font ...
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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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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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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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Prevent LuaLaTeX from splitting umlauts
Here's a minimal example:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}\setmainfont{Cambria}
\begin{document}aöz\end{document}
Compiling this into a PDF using lualatex and extracting the text using ...
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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 ...
