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{unicode} is for questions about Unicode (an international standard for character encoding) and its implementations. For questions about input encodings use {input-encodings}.

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A macro for unicode bold math font

\documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage[warnings-off={mathtools-colon,mathtools-overbracket}]{unicode-math} \usepackage[default]{fontsetup} \begin{document} \begin{equation*} \mathbf{R} \qquad ...
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Tripple dagger ⹋ in pdflatex?

Does any package provide the Unicode character U+2E4B “⹋” (Triple Dagger) for pdflatex? There was an attempt made here: How to coin a symbol "dddagger"?, but it is not what I am looking for. ...
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Help with some special characters (░█)

I am trying to get these two characters to render properly (░█). So far, I tried using \verb, utf8 encoding, utf8x encoding, using lualatex with a few different fonts following this method. Each time, ...
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XeLaTex does not show unicode symbol

Why doesn't my Unicode chess knight symbol show up in the output when using TexShop and typesetting with the XeLaTex engine? In TexShop I have \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} 1. ♘ df5 ...
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Truncated floor symbol

The Unicode characters ⸤ (U+2E24) and ⸥ (U+2E25) are sometimes used to groups words together in syntactic analysis. For example: ⸤The daughter ⸤of my brother⸥ ⸥ sees ⸤an orange tree⸥ ⸤with her ...
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How may I get hold of U+210B?

When I try to insert and compile the symbol, I just get the error message: Unicode character ℋ (U+210B) not set up for use with LaTeX. ℋ How may the problem be resolved? P.S. Other Unicode symbols ...
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Problem knitting in RStudio [duplicate]

LaTeX Error: Unicode character ^^[ (U+001B) not set up for use with LaTeX. keep getting this how do I fix?
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Unicode "uprightdown" and "northeastsoutheast" arrows

Similar to the \leftrightarrow commands, I'd like to create two new commands that are usable in mathmode, specifically as index. The resulting symbol should be of the same size as a single arrow. I ...
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How can I import just one symbol from a package or fix weird LuaLaTeX anomaly?

Most of the world uses ~ (U+007E - Tilde) or ∼ (U+223C - Tilde Operator) to denote similarity. In LaTeX we can use \~{} or \sim. \documentclass{article} \title{} \author{} \begin{document} $ABC$ \~{} ...
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Unicode (U+2212) error pops up out of nowhere [duplicate]

Since I've been using an acronym in one paragraph, the unicode error pops out of nowhere. It is particularly weird, since it appears and disappears from itself when I'm changing something in the text. ...
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How to type a BOX that occupies the size of a Chinese character symbol

If a Chinese character does not exist in the font, the resulting pdf document will not display the Chinese character correctly and will be replaced with a large box. Just like this box down here: The ...
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LaTeX Error: Unicode character − (U+2212) When Trying to Insert Phi, Rho, etc. within Sentence

I have the highlighted sentence showing up in Overleaf using LaTex using the following text/code: where $\Phi_2$ corresponds to CDF of the bivariate normal distribution with expectation zero, unit ...
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Unicode and Scientific Word/Workplace

I am working in a group whose leader uses Scientific Workplace (SWP) 5.5. Most other people in the group do not use this software and since MacKichan (spelling?) went bankrupt, there is no way to ...
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Invalid character error: Listings with unicode chars with pdflatex and xelatex

The following code works fine with xelatex. It gives an invalid character error ^^00 with pdflatex. If I comment the line out it works fine. Probably an input encoding problem but can not find the ...
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How do I generate this u with acute accent and under horn?

Below is the photo of the word that uses this letter. The language is Jemez, fwiw. Is there such a unicode character? What is the name of that "thing" under the letter? How do I obtain it in ...
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Case-folding a string in LuaTeX

I would like to perform Unicode case-folding in the Lua interpreter of LuaTeX running within the TeX Live ecosystem. Can you suggest whether there is an existing implementation available in TeX Live, ...
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URL, line break, unicode character

Some URLs include unicode characters. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin–Watson_statistics. All (most?) webbrowsers are able to handle such URLs but some PDF viewers (like Mac's Preview ...
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Can't display Δ in a lstinputlisting: LaTeX Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence (�\lst@FillFixed@)

I have an external JSON-File that contains the character Δ. A document can be built but I get the error: LaTeX Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence (�\lst@FillFixed@). As it's external I am using: \...
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LaTeX: Insert within document a Unicode Character which is not contained in the font

I try to insert a Unicode Character \char"2756 (Black Diamond Minus White X) which is not contained in the font newcomputermodern I need this as a paragraph separator. So my question: how to ...
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Windows 11 - Terminal - LaTeX Error - You haven't defined the language [ yet.?

Code in VSCodium \documentclass[ % remove for less green, BCOR=12mm, % 12mm binding corrections, adjust to fit your binding parskip=half, % new paragraphs start with half line ...
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How to find and fix the origin of invalid Unicode character generated by LyX?

I am getting these errors when either directly generating a pdf in LyX or running pdflatex on the generated .tex. Overfull \hbox (36.72682pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 2163--2166 [][] [49] ...
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Not possible to print Unicode A729 character in LaTeX

I tried to display the latin small letter tz - ꜩ with their respective unicode with \symbol or \char but it does not work when I try it in Overleaf. I looked at the conversion tool if there is a ...
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! LaTeX Error: Unicode character ̆ (U+0306) [duplicate]

since I try to include my literature I get the following unicode error: ! LaTeX Error: Unicode character ̆ (U+0306) what exactly does this mean and how can I solve this error? Can anyone help me? Best ...
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Typesetting Non-Latin Unicode Characters with LaTeX

I am writing a package in LaTeX, and would like to have basic macros (e.g. \vulture) for printing almost all the Egyptian hieroglyphs (e.g. U+13150 𓅐 - Egyptian Hieroglyph G14 - Vulture). As far as I ...
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Unicode characters and subscripts in minted python

using Sympy and print I get the Unicode characters shown below. I am trying to display them in minted. I tried to create the individual characters using newunicodechar. This seem to work for π but the ...
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Biblatex with Biber can not read utf-8 encoded entry in .bib file [duplicate]

I am new to LaTeX. All similar questions I have found so far could be resolved by using biblatex with biber. But this does not work for me. I have an entry in my .bib file with utf-8 characters. It ...
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How to type these characters in PDFLatex

I want to be able to type the unicode characters of ∫,∘,→,←,×. Specifically, I want to be able to include these into my latex code and have them rendered appropriately on the corresponding pdf. I can'...
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How to type Sigma and Product in PDFLatex

I want to be able to type the unicode characters of Σ and Π in latex. Specifically, I want to be able to include these into my latex code and have them rendered appropriately on the corresponding pdf. ...
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How to print all Greek and Copitc Unicode with LaTeX?

Take a look at the picture below: Just what I'm going to use Greek alphabet! PDF link: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf
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How to type all math alphanumeric symbols in Unicode in LaTeX?

Take a look at the picture below: This is the Unicode I want to use! PDF address: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf
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Incorrect encoding to display characters in table

Words in the table are not readable. How do I use the correct encoding to display the characters? This is my code: \caption{Generalized search strings for the databases} \centering \begin{tabularx}{\...
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StrikeThrough (st) command drops the Unicode letters

The \st command drops the Unicode letters coming at the end. I use LuaLatex most of the time on TexLive 2020. Here is my MWE. \documentclass[a4paper,openany,14pt,oneside,]{extbook} \usepackage{soul} ...
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How to print specific symbol by its code?

I would like to print unicode character like this one using it's unicode code. I know there is \char command that allows me to print symbols (e.g. \char48 prints 0). But \char1F40D is evaluated to (\...
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How to make all staff notation in LaTeX?

I want to use LaTeX, to make Unicode of staff notation! Look at the picture below: All I want to do is LaTeX + Unicode! I hope you can make it! The Unicode URL is here, go check it out: https://www....
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Is there any way to retrieve saved string in the beginning of document from its end in LuaLaTeX?

There are different types of “registers” in LuaTeX. With totcount package, you can save counter (number) from any place in a document and get its value also in any place in a document with the help of ...
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\Tau causes an error

I use https://oeis.org/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_mathematical_symbols for symbols. It normally works. but when i want to use \Tau (or any greek symbols whose code starts with a capital for that matter) I get ...
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Cannot use Font Awesome 6

I'm trying to setup Font Awesome 6 on Overleaf but I'm failing. Although Font Awesome 5 is available as a package, version 6 is not. I installed the fonts manually by downloading the .otf files from ...
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listings package issues in LuaLaTeX, with coloring cyrillic comment in UTF

Coloring cyrillic comment does not work in LuaLaTeX. How might I be able to resolve this issue? MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage[spelling=modern]{russian} \...
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How to deal with Unicode character ʿ (U+02BF)?

I have to include the name "ʿĀ’ishah". However, the first symbol "ʿ" does not appear. Could anyone help me with this problem? Thanks a lot. \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \begin{...
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missing icuuc72.dll breaks miktex latex

I just upgraded to the latest version of Miktex and I am getting a message when I am trying to compile with xelatex that "the code execution cannot proceed because icuuc72.dll was not found"....
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Converting Unicode characters to latex code?

I'm no expert in Latex, just a frequent user. I found an old file of mine with code of this sort: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{color,pxfonts,fix-cm} \usepackage{latexsym} \...
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Use unicode-math character with pdfLaTex compiler

I want to use the \squareulblack symbol (or others) from the unicode-math package, but I have to keep compiling with pdfLaTex (since the document has evolved always using this compiler and it would be ...
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Declare font in math mode

How I make the default font in math mode has nothing to do with \setmainfont{some font}. Why is the character specified by \it Times New Roman and the others are Computer Modern? Now I want to change \...
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How to remove: "LaTeX Error: Unicode character (U+2009)" [duplicate]

I'm writing a document in Latex using Overleaf. I'm not able to remove the error: "LaTeX Error: Unicode character (U+2009)". The error is due to the statement of the following: where $V{_p{...
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How can I get a Delta in Noto using fontspec?

Using this MWE \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Noto Serif} \setsansfont{Noto Sans} \begin{document} ∆ \sffamily ∆ \end{document} I get the error that the delta is not ...
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using xelatex and keeping the other fonts

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, scheme = plain, twoside]{ctexart} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usepackage{amsmath,enumerate,amsfonts,amssymb} \...
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unicode-math symbols not appearing (Luatex)

As the title states, Unicode characters do not appear in math-mode. From my understanding, the package "unicode-math" should make them appear. My question is, why don't they appear and how I ...
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Defining unicode character in the context of another (pdfLaTeX)

This is a bit of a strange question. Suppose for some unknown reason I want the character ɲ (U+0272, 0xc9 0xb2) to say "bye", the character ɳ (U+0273, 0xc9 0xb3) to say "aww", and ...
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cmbright for text and math with fontspec [duplicate]

Simply put, I would like to use CM Bright for my entire document, but the math remains in Computer Modern Roman, it seems. I can get the font set up to work by mixing \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\...
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What is Unicode? [closed]

I am a complete novice to using LaTeX and have begun with overleaf online and noticed one of the first lines run in the source code is \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. I understand this is to run a ...

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