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Can anyone help me? I've looked here and around Google, but all the code which people claim works for them doesn't work for me. For example, if I use XeLaTeX on: 

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth=5in,paperheight=8in,
 top=0.75in,  bottom=0.75in,
 inner=0.75in,outer=0.75in ]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[russian]{babel} 

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\begin{center}
\huge
 Либертарианские уроки \\
\textit{Южного Парка}

\vspace{\stretch{1}}
\Large
Libertarian Philosophy in \\
\textit{South Park}

\vspace{\stretch{4}}
\normalsize
Брандон Симпсон
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

I get the English output as normal, but the Cyrillic characters are all rendered as ??????

I thought maybe the problem was with TeXShop, but if I open the .pdf with Preview or Acrobat, it's all ???s...

Any advice? I've been using LaTeX for a long time, but haven't had to write in Cyrillic, and don't know much about fonts/encoding/etc.

thank you

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    Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format.
    – user11232
    Mar 4, 2014 at 2:32
  • I get the expected result, provided the file is saved as UTF-8. Add % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode at the beginning of the file and retry.
    – egreg
    Mar 4, 2014 at 8:05

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To run the above code with XeLaTeX, you'd better replace the line

\usepackage[russian]{babel}

with

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{russian}

Also add

\usepackage{fontspec}

to get the correct font encoding and be sure that your document is UTF-8 encoded.

Then the following MWE

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperwidth=5in,paperheight=8in,
 top=0.75in,  bottom=0.75in,
 inner=0.75in,outer=0.75in ]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{russian}
\usepackage{libertine}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\begin{center}
\huge
 Либертарианские уроки \\
\textit{Южного Парка}

\vspace{\stretch{1}}
\Large
Libertarian Philosophy in \\
\textit{South Park}

\vspace{\stretch{4}}
\normalsize
Брандон Симпсон
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}

produces

enter image description here

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  • thanks for the response! but the problem persists...the strange thing is, i feel like i was able to make cyrillic output as a test once before, using exactly this source. i think since then i've had to do a clean install on this machine, and now instead of that lovely Либертарианские уроки i get ????????; on the second line, the question marks are italicized, even...
    – ethan
    Mar 4, 2014 at 18:23
  • Hmmm...and I don't know if this is helpful, but something very strange just happened. I found an old handout I had made in Russian. I went to typeset it using XeLaTeX. Everything worked. BUT, the characters in the source somehow turned into gibberish. So, here is the current source:\\ \section{ÐÑеЎОÑлПвОе} ÐМПгОе ÑÑОÑаÑÑ, ÑÑП ЌеÑÑÐŸÐžÐŒÐµÐœÐžÑ ÐŽÐŸÐ»Ð¶ÐœÑ ÑаÑÑЌаÑÑОваÑÑÑÑ ÐºÐ°Ðº пеÑеЌеММÑе ÑОпа-\typ{e}:\\ and here is what that outputs: 1. Предисловие Многие считают, что местоимения должны рассматриваться как переменные типа-⟨e⟩:
    – ethan
    Mar 4, 2014 at 18:39
  • @ethan The only thing you have to do is to be sure that the encoding of the document is UTF-8.
    – karlkoeller
    Mar 4, 2014 at 18:41
  • thank you, is there more to that than adding this \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to the preamble? if i add that, i get no error when compiling, but still a bunch of ??? instead of russian
    – ethan
    Mar 4, 2014 at 18:44
  • @ethan That is to let LaTeX know that your file is UTF-8 encoded, but the encoding of your document MUST be UTF-8. I don't know how to do this in TeXShop, see its manual.
    – karlkoeller
    Mar 4, 2014 at 18:46

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