Questions tagged [unicode]
{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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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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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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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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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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How to include a Lenny face in a LaTeX document? e.g. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
How would one include a "classic" Lenny face in a LaTeX document?
A paper is due tomorrow and I am curious. e.g. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I have attempted to use the verbatim environment but it has proved ...
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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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Having problems with listings and UTF-8. Can it be fixed?
I'm having some problems with listings and UTF-8 in my document. Maybe someone can help me? Some characters work, like é and ó, but á and others appear at the beginning of words...
\documentclass[...
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Unicode degree symbol ° in math formulas: \textdegree invalid in math mode
I'd like to be able to simply input a degree symbol as ° in my source code. German keyboards have a key for this, and it makes the source so much more readable. I'm using pdflatex from TeXLive 2012, ...
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Typeset the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji
I'm completing a problem set, one problem for which I literally have no idea what to do on. The graders would prefer to have a physical copy of the problem so I thought it best to include the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...
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How to use phonetic IPA characters in LaTeX
I wish to write a paper about linguistics, so I thought about trying LaTeX. Sadly I couldn't figure out how to write the unique characters I need for my work, for example epsilon with a little tilde ...
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Is there any reason to prefer a unicode symbol versus its LaTeX command counterpart?
For example, consider the Swedish letter "Å" which is also the symbol for a unit of length in chemistry. When writing a document, there are three different ways to achieve this character:
Å
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French accents in \hl from soul package
I'd like to use the \hl command from the soul package in a French text. However, it does not work whenever the part to highlight contains French accents (e.g.: \hl{é}).
I could use \'e instead of é (...
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'Not element of' in Latin Modern
In the following example, the ∉ symbol does not look good.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
\begin{document}
This ...
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How to print a warning sign (triangle with exclamation point)?
I am interested in including a triangle with an exclamation point (unicode #9888: ⚠) in a tex document. I've looked in the usual places (detexify, etc.) and not found this symbol. The document should ...
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! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char ́ (U+301)(inputenc)
I get this error message, during compiling my .tex-document.
line 234 - ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char ́ (U+301)(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX.See the inputenc package documentation ...
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Use biblatex and utf8
For my thesis, I use biblatex for the bibliography.
As seen here, biblatex is not compatible, with \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}. It was reported as close but I still have the same problem with my ...
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Why is the fraction off the math axis in XeTeX?
The fraction in textstyle is off the math axis in XeTeX when I use a Unicode math font. In LuaTeX, though, it aligns nicely with the math axis. The follwing MWE should illustrate this. Also, in ...
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How to find this unicode character U+202F in your LaTeX documents?
I get the following error but I cannot locate the unicode character
Package inputenc Error: Unicode char (U+202F)
TeXLive: 2017
OS: Linux Debian Stretch 9.1
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The 'listings' package and UTF-8
Please, do you know if there's any possibility how to use the listings package together with XeLaTeX? I have to use XeLaTeX and therefore I have UTF-8 encoded files. This is not compatible with ...
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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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Error: Unicode char \u8:φ not set up for use with LaTeX
I have the following LaTeX document, saved in the UTF-8 character set encoding:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
φΔδ汉
\end{document}
(it has 3 Greek characters ...
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How to find characters that LaTeX doesn't like?
I use exported .bib entries with biber, biblatex and \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, in my literature reports for my group. This means most standard annoying characters (à, etc) are handled automatically....
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How do I enter an arbitrary Unicode code point into my document?
I want to enter a GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA (U+0391) into my LaTeX document. I do not want a LATIN CAPITAL A. How do I do this?
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Define fallback font for specific Unicode characters in LuaLaTeX
This closed question prompts me to propose a more general question and a solution I don't think has been demonstrated here.
When compiling with LuaLaTeX and using Unicode input, how do you set up a ...
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xelatex problem: Missing chars in TeXLive 2013 / \textfont XXX is undefined errors in miktex
I'm trying to track down the source of a problem with the new xetex binary in miktex. I think it is related to the following problem in TeXLive 2013:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
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Using unicode ℝ as commands \mathbb{R}
I want to use a unicode character, say $ℝ$, and get the equivalent command $\mathbb{R}$. So what I want is something like
\newcommandℝ{\mathbb{R}} //it won't work by default, of course
How can I do ...
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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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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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Emoji Characters
I'm trying to display Emoji Characters inside my XeLaTeX Document.
It seems to work for some glyphs like the numbers and pound sign but not for all.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
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«» resemble too much \ll \gg
I am typesetting a translation of some ancient poetry book from another language (namely Finnish). In the text there are several quotes which uses the Guillemets (« and »).
Since I am using a UTF-8 ...
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Which Unicode fonts are available with grades/optical sizes comparable to Donald Knuth's awesome eight grades in Computer Modern Roman?
Which Unicode fonts are available with grades/optical sizes comparable to Donald Knuth's awesome eight grades in Computer Modern Roman?
It would be great to get at least 3 options!
This question is ...
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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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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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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 > 0,(|x-x_0|...
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Using unicode Roman numerals in XeTeX
As mentioned in How can I get Roman numerals in text?, there are several ways in which one can add Roman numerals to text in TeX. However, these solutions all seem to use three I's to make a roman ...
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Unicode in PDF Metadata
There are several ways of setting PDF meta data when compiling LaTeX documents. The two most popular ways are arguably via pdfinfo,
\pdfinfo{
/Author (Erwin Schrödinger)
}
and hyperref,
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listings package changes hyphens to minus signs [duplicate]
The listings package transforms source-code hyphens (-, U+002D) into minus signs (−, U+2212) when using the default proportional fonts, though not when using the default monospaced typewriter font. A ...
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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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Capital ẞ in LaTeX/XeTeX/lualatex/whatever
I am trying to get a ẞ in my LaTeX document. How can I do this? I already tried:
Using other fonts: dejavu and libertine
Using \MakeUppercase{ß}, which sometimes produces nothing, sometimes produces "...
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Detexify-like service where I can paste a symbol
With detexify, I can draw a symbol and find code to reproduce it in LaTeX.
Suppose that I already have the symbol ∀. I could mimic its shape by drawing it by hand into detexify, and if I draw it ...
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Unicode character look-up
Now that I have switched to primarily using XeTeX, I find I do not use Detexify or the The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List to find symbols very much. However, I often still need to locate symbols. ...
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How can (La)TeX read UTF-8?
As described in The TeXbook, TeX reads files byte by byte, regardless of the particular format -- as I understand, this is just how IniTeX is set up.
I also understand that LaTeX is just a ...
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How can I tell LaTeX that an \input file is in a different encoding from inputenc?
I'm currently writing a .tex report with my wife. She's on a Windows machine and I'm running Linux over here; we've decided to encode our report in ISO-8859-1 (i.e., we use \usepackage[latin1]{...
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Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution?
I've got a word processor (WordGrinder) which supports Unicode. It can export LaTeX files, which then get run through XeTeX.
Unfortunately, it seems that while XeTeX understands the Unicode correctly,...
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Option unicode=true with hyperref
Is there a drawback when using the option unicode=true with the package hyperref and the engines PDFTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX?
In other words, can a portable document always have \usepackage[unicode=...
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Adding full non-English Unicode language (Bengali) support to polyglossia
As we can see in this question, Bengali (Bangla)
support in polyglossia is incomplete.
The major weak areas are,
Support for numerals.
Support for other language related areas like dates.
For the ...
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How to enter 🅱 in latex
I need to enter the 🅱 sign in LaTeX for a paper I'm writing. I tried compiling my paper using XeLaTeX, but it just ignores 🅱. Is there perhaps a way to enter the 🅱's Unicode code point itself into ...
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Typesetting phonetic symbols: Unicode or tipa?
On TeX.SX there are a lot of questions of the form "How do I typeset [some phonetic symbol]?" For example:
Typesetting modifier letter U+02ED
The near-close, near-front unrounded vowel symbol
The IPA ...
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How to input accents in PlainTeX with UTF-8 encoding?
I'm using TeX with the plain format. On my keyboard there is the 'è' character (as well as é, ò, à, ù, ì). I'd like to make it work so that, when put è in the input file, TeX transforms it into \`e, ...
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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 posted ...
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