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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Identifying location on unicode error [duplicate]
I am knitting my document using bookdown in rmarkdown. I'm getting this error
LaTeX Error: Unicode character ; (U+037E)
I've tried searching the .tex file but not found where this is in my document....
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Make LaTeX directly recognize unicode symbol [duplicate]
I want to write the document in English, and copy-paste some text from online sources, where unicode symbols are usually used, for example:
$\frac{dω(τ)}{dτ}$
The letter tau is compilable in many ...
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Automatically converting XeLaTeX document to work with pdflatex
I've got a Literate Agda document, which contains a large number of unicode characters. It builds nicely with XeLaTeX and life is good.
The problem is that arxiv only supports pdflatex, and I'd like ...
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How can I arrange it so that I can use Greek characters directly in my LaTeX sources?
Support for non-ASCII characters has come a long way since the 1980s, and today we are accustomed, as users of computing devices, to be able to insert arbitrary Unicode characters via differing ...
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Use unicode text in tex document
I try below sample but can not pass compile:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
├── version.txt
└── visible_windows.zip
\end{document}
Error:
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
...
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Problem in writing/inserting special symbol [closed]
I am writing text in Latex, but getting error message “Unicode character”. How to correct it?
K(a+b,c-2) +L(a-b,c+1)
Secondly, I want to use arrow therefore using command $\Rightarrow$. But instead ...
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I wish to use "engraved font" type glyphs for set names e.g. 𝔸, 𝔹, ℂ, 𝔻,… (U+1D538 – U+2149) but struggling to find LaTex codes for them
Hopefully LaTex symbols exist for these "engraved font" type of Unicode glyphs for single letters of the alphabet [A-Z][a-z] which are included with many fonts in the Extended Unicode range.
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How to insert a single cuneiform (Sumerian) unicode character in a XeTeX document?
I have seen examples of inserting single characters when the font package is known, as in the following example with the character "anchor" using dingbat. But I do not know how to do it with ...
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Use DocStrip (.dtx) with Unicode input
When I compile this file (test.dtx) with tex test.dtx && latexmk -pdflua test.tex, it doesn't support the UTF8 input.
%<*driver>
\input docstrip.tex
\keepsilent
\askforoverwritefalse
\...
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LaTeX Error: Unicode character е (U+0435) [closed]
I copy-pasted a paragraph from my google doc onto overleaf and I'm getting this error. I don't understand what it means and I realise that it has to do something with latex not expecting a character ...
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Xetex and combining unicode characters
I decided to use the combining over arrows like the ones in the following characters: Ω⃗,M⃗,B⃗,Ω⃡,E⃡.
I am using xelatex already because I need the unicode support for other sorts of characters.
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csvsimple struggles with loading UTF-8 characters
I am trying to get csvsimple to load a table column and display its contents in an enumerated list. I got to a point where it works for ASCII characters and even some letters with diacritics, but it ...
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Is there a "smooth" version of \Letter?
From the ifsym package I have \Letter, which gives
Is there a smooth version of this? I want something like the Unicode ✉, or
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pgfkeys + hyperxmp + utf8 problem
I am trying define a command where I use pgfkeys to process multiple options. Some of these are used to set meta-information in the pdf using hyperxmp. Example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Define "Macron below" / combining low line (U+0332) as a unicode character to underline text
Consider the following (compile with xelatex):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[verbose]{newunicodechar}
% List of symbols supported by Symbola at
% https://www.fileformat....
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Using Demotic Alef unicode character with Noto font package and pdfLaTeX
I'm editing some documents for my institution and need a few Demotic (ancient Egyptian script) characters:
Alef: ꜣ and Ꜣ; Unicode: U+A723 and U+A722.
Ayin: ꜥ and Ꜥ; Unicode: U+A725 and U+A724.^1
It ...
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\Umathaccent works with Type 1 fonts but not with OpenType
I am in the early stages of experimenting with accents in XeTeX/Unicode. This began because I wanted to be able to use MathTime Pro 2's bold and heavy accents without necessarily making the symbol ...
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Increase size of superscript letter diacritics
I'm working with transcriptions of medieval texts and so have to deal with diacritic craziness while also being limited to the Libertinus Serif font which has dismal support for superscript letters. ...
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How to use sans-serif italic greek letter in math mode?
I am typing \mathsf{\eta X \eta^\top} to represent 3 matrices multiplying together. I choose to use sans-serif fonts as matrices, but the greek letter \eta cannot be displayed as sans-serif fonts.
I ...
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Big LaTeX delimiters have a weird encoding in the pdf. How can I avoid this?
I noticed recently that changing the size of parentheses in LaTeX results in a different encoding of the text in the pdf (as determined using the copy/paste functionality in my pdf viewer). For ...
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Resizable delimiters with StixTwo OTF without unicode-math
What exactly is involved with setting up delimiters with XeTeX, Unicode, and OpenType fonts? I found this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/692859/224317 which looks promising. I have also ...
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How do \left | and \right | actually work?
How do \left | and \right | actually work, specifically when packages like fontspec or mathspec are involved and unicode fonts are used?
I sort of understand how other kinds of brackets and ...
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Off-centred dagesh when writing Hebrew with babel package in LuaLaTeX
I am writing a document in Hebrew with nikud in LuaLaTeX using the babel package. I can't understand why the 'dagesh' (the dot that sits inside letters) is consistently off-centred to the left. Here ...
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New Twitter symbol 𝕩?
I am trying to write the new Twitter symbol to a file
but I don't understand how to use declareunicodecharacter in this case. Does anyone know if it can be generated 𝕩 ?
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TexStudio and TexLive 2021 in Custom Linux OS "Package inputenc error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence"
I want to know how to make the symbol can be compiled and shown?
Thus I can use symbol of omega instead of writing $\omega$, or symbol of pi instead of $\pi$.
I am able to do this and compile it in ...
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Command \; invalid in math mode [closed]
I get this warning when I try to compile my latex file.
This is very confusing, I thought \; was a proper way of adding spacing in math mode. Even more confusing is that most lines generating this ...
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Inserting unicode character with fontspec does not work
I am using XeLaTeX and fontspec and trying to insert a Turkish Lira symbol ₺ into my document. Minimal example:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xspace}
\newfontfamily\...
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How to render unicode symbols?
I have the following latex code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
█ [1:0x561b3f574358] <list>
├─[2:0x561b3e9cd938] <dbl>
├─[3:...
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Unknown Unicode character 128 = U+0080, U+0098, U+0099
I have the same problem which is described here:
Unknown Unicode character 128 = U+0080.
Error because of U+0080, U+0098 and U+0099.
The errors are displayed in my masterdoc in the line directly ...
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Expandable macro that extracts the first characters of many words for UTF-8/cyrillic or UTF-8/ASCII string without additional packages
There was a problem to slightly change the macro described in Expandable macro that extracts the first character of UTF-8/cyrillic string without additional packages for the argument which may contain ...
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Greek letters within \mathsf, \mathsfit, \mathbfsf, and \mathbfsfit without using unicode-math
There are now a number of OpenType math fonts (or font families) available with Greek sans serif letters in all combinations of upright/italic and regular/bold. Stix 2 is a prime example (although at ...
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Strange behaviour of \dotsc with unicode latin modern font
The spacing with \dotsc is a little "strange"
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,french]{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[warnings-off={mathtools-colon,...
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Help with hebrew to latin transcription in XeLaTeX
I am attempting to transliterate hebrew text to latin using SBL handbook's transcription convention. I am almost successful, but there are some more advanced transliteration rules which I struggle to ...
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Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string (Unicode): (hyperref)
I have this warning in a title section:Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string (Unicode):
(hyperref)
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,french]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Which encoding should I choose when saving files in Kile?
I noticed that Kile appears to have changed the default encoding for files to x-UTF_8j. It has also developed a bewildering list of encoding options in the file saving dialogue. (So this is probably ...
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Changing unicode font for just one symbol
I am trying to get the "Bourbaki" symbol (dangerous bend U+2621).
I use latin modern font which doesn't have this symbol, so I tried this (changing the font in STIX):
\documentclass[10pt,...
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rounded y in unicode fonts
I am searching for fonts which give in math mode this result:
instead of this:
I use LuaLaTex, so the first example (the one I want) was obtained by (with the latin modern font by default):
\...
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How to use acronym package to use greek letterswhile using unicode greek letters in regular text
I haven't been able to look up an answer for this.
The idea is to use the acronym with the greek letter alpha or gamma for example, while using the regular unicode greek character in the text.
The ...
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Latex error: Unicode character ν (U+03BD)
Using overleaf, I tried to output the following sentence in a pdf form: ...$c$, then the cost of adding $v$ jobs is $vc$, here $c$ and $v$ are parameters.
while compiling the code, there are two ...
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Undefined Unicode characters
I am having trouble understanding Overleaf's seven complaints about the following code. It seems to be saying that I am using some undefined Unicode characters, but I'm not sure which ones are ...
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Page footer with unicode characters not shown using fancyhdr [closed]
I'm using fancyhdr at overleaf, but the page footer is not shown:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{LATEX Image/}}
\usepackage{...
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TikZ / foreach: read out sequence of Unicode symbols
How can I read out \char"1F0A1,...,\char"1F0DF
that means \char127137, ..., \char127199
with a foreach-loop?
I got Dimensions too large if I use the second version; and TikZ does not like ...
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Unicode Rightarrow is missing from my font
I get this error:
Missing character: There is no ⇒ (U+21D2) in font [lmmono12-regular]:!
I use xelatex and the package unicode-math as suggested at
Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX
Should I ...
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Tell unicode-math how to translate unicode symbols (script vs calligraphic)
I am using LuaLaTeX and unicode-math in my documents. I input most of the simple symbols (sum, products, greek letters, quantification, etc.) directly in unicode (using agda-mode for emacs). When I ...
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Batch correct Latex PDF's with wrong encoding to correct umlauts
at my university the template everyone uses seems to use the standard ot1 encoding. This leads to all umlauts to be correctly displayed but if copied they turn into two characters. Ex. Makro¨okonomik, ...
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Where can I find a table which shows the LaTeX commands for each Unicode Character?
Where can I find a table which shows the LaTeX commands for each Unicode Character if such a command exists?
For example the LaTeX command for ∈ is \in
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Emojis with lualatex
I'm trying to use both the lualatex or xelatex commands to produce my document:
xelatex -shell-escape -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -recorder "book.tex"
or
lualatex -...
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Undefined control sequence error with arabtex package
I am trying to introduce the arabtex package into my document with the following three lines:
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage{utf8}
\setcode{utf8}
However, including these lines in the preamble ...
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Package inputenc error not understood
There is an error I have that i absolutely don't understand: it comes from this article from which i am trying to include the reference:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp993642l
(inputenc) ...
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What's wrong with my Luatex-Xits setup that it can't write Cyrillic in mathmode? [duplicate]
I have a keyboard layout with a layer of Cyrillic letters and use those sometimes in math texts through Luatex (more precisely, the compiler tells me it is using LuaHBTeX, Version 1.16.0). This works ...
