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here's my thesis Latex files: http://www.mediafire.com/download/c7q8z4v6gv864rk/triet_thesis_clean.rar

Please help me to fix the error, I've tried all the things I can find with Google :( :

   ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
   <to be read again>
   \begingroup
   l.52 ...}intopreamble]Deobfuscation}{{4.1.1}{xii}}
   The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
   not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
   (D:\DH\Luan_Van_Tot_Nghiep\Latex\triet_thesis_test\LVTN.aux
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You have a wrong character in one of your labels:

\subsection{LLVM}
\label{subsec:LLVMDeobfuscation}

where, between LLVM and Deobfuscation, you have the Unicode character U+200E (LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK) that somehow sneaked in.

Retype the label and you should be OK.

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    Thank you. I really appreciate your help. Could you tell me how you find out the reason :) ? Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 17:37
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    If you use the \usepackage{underscore} the '_' character in labels will cause this error. To fix this also use \usepackage[english]{babel}
    – Cyrille
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 12:07
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    I'm stuck with this error message, and I would love to know how I go about fixing it? Commented Mar 28, 2018 at 15:14
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    @AndreasStorvikStrauman I copied the offending text and pasted on a multiconverter that shows every byte, for instance r12a.github.io/app-conversion
    – egreg
    Commented Mar 28, 2018 at 17:21
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    @Cyrille Please make that an answer! It helped me a lot
    – Phani
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 19:58
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For others if you have not tried to delete all the generated files from pdflatex and bibtex, then do that before any other changes, because it could be a compilation error.

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  • Urgh, thanks... Turns out my clean Makefile target was insufficient Commented Dec 16, 2022 at 10:04
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I never wrote Vietnamese and don't know if it can be done with pdflatex. However, if I use xelatex instead and

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{report}
%\usepackage[utf8x]{vietnam}%% xelatex is by default utf8
\usepackage{fontspec}%% load unicode fonts
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{suthesis-2e}
\begin{document}
 ...

I'll get a proper output with out any errors.

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    Unfortunately, I have to write my thesis in Vietnamese :( . Could you help me a little bit further? Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 16:36
  • as I wrote: use may preamble and then run xelatex instead of pdflatex. Every editor ahopuld have such a button or topix for xelatex
    – user2478
    Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 16:41
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    No, the OP probably won't get proper output: the error is caused by a spurious (invisibile) character in a label and probably all references to it will not be resolved.
    – egreg
    Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 17:45
  • I get all references right with xelatex
    – user2478
    Commented Nov 26, 2013 at 18:29
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    You get references right provided you build \ref{...} by copy-pasting from the argument of \label. If you type directly \ref{subsec:LLVMDeobfuscation} you can't get a correct reference.
    – egreg
    Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17
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If you use \usepackage{underscore} the '_' character in labels will cause this error.

To fix this add the following: \usepackage[english]{babel}

Edit

Here's an example to show the fix works.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
% try commenting out the packages below
\usepackage{underscore}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}

The banana figure, see Figure \ref{banana_two}.

This is going to be a line with an underscored filename: Banana_getting_unpealed.png

\begin{figure}
    \caption{Bananas.}
    \label{banana_two}
\end{figure}

\end{document}
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  • Why does this help- what does it do? Commented Jan 18, 2023 at 17:54
  • I don't remember what I was trying to do or fix - just that this did the trick. Underscores can cause a "Missing $ inserted." error, adding both the underscore and babel packages fixes this.
    – Cyrille
    Commented Jan 20, 2023 at 9:44
  • I removed all underscores in my bibtex and that was quite tedious. Commented Jan 21, 2023 at 11:37
  • Pure Genius. I haven't seen a kludge of this beauty in 20 years. I've written kludgier myself but mine were not things of beauty.
    – DLyons
    Commented Dec 9, 2023 at 12:38
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In some cases, malformed options in \includegraphics (from the graphicx package) will cause this error (! Missing \endcsname inserted.). One example is forgetting width=, thus \includegraphics[1.0\textwidth]{filename} instead of \includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{filename}.

I am uncertain if this occurs in every case or just with particular documentclasses (beamer here) and in the presence of particular other packages.

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  • Just found this out the hard way myself
    – Bart
    Commented Feb 2 at 16:36

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