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How do I make LaTeX understand Unicode characters ↔︎ and ↕︎
Actually, LaTeX has a pretty good Unicode support (better yet since the October 2019 update). You just need to define the character you want to type:
\documentclass{article}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{...
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How do I make LaTeX understand Unicode characters ↔︎ and ↕︎
I would recommend the newunicodechar package for this:
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{↔}{\ensuremath{\leftrightarrow}}
\newunicodechar{↕︎}{\ensuremath{\updownarrow}}
You could also ...
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lost my smilies: it is worth the effort to make Unicode work?
The first error message for the first document that you posted is, as you show,
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character ☹ (U+2639)
(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX.
See the ...
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\usepackage{newunicodechar} loads but commands have no effect
The error message is
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char (U+202F)
(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX.
and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE is nowhere defined.
If I add a ...
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Defining a fallback font for all missing characters
A solution for Xelatex and Lualatex, using expl3.
The method defines "default" fonts: it stores codepoint block information as a set of records in an expl3 sequence-variable, aggregates ...
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How to print Unicode characters in LaTeX by its code? (For example \U0001316E)
The font 'Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Regular' has placed its 1,071 glyphs in slots 77824 thru 78894 or, equivalently, slots U13000 thru U1342E. (To typeset all glyphs in a table, one needs 66 ...
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Add unicode character to document
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{「}{\ensuremath\lceil}
\newunicodechar{」}{\ensuremath\rfloor}
\title{Unicode char test}
\author{Skip}
\date{}
\usepackage{fontspec}...
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U+21B3 UTF8 character failure with \newunicodechar
You also get
Package newunicodechar Warning: This package only works if the document
(newunicodechar) encoding is `utf8'.
Remove \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} and \usepackage{ucs}.
...
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Caron Accent \v{a} doesn't render without \usepackage{xeCJK}
The default setup doesn't use unicode U+02C7, but the combining accent U+030C which is missing in your font. xecjk contains some code to use U+02C7 instead, but seems to use this code only if ...
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How to print Unicode characters in LaTeX by its code? (For example \U0001316E)
Just use the character, specifying a font that contains it, and compile with xelatex or lualatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\hifont}{NotoSansEgyptianHieroglyphs-...
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Country flags unicode char
You can emulate what basically utf8 does:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newunicodechar{🇩}{\flags_D:n}
\newunicodechar{🇺}{\flags_U:n}
\...
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Replace brackets by Chinese brackets
\newunicodechar refuses to modify characters in the range 0–127, because they're used in TeX's syntax.
If you're brave, you can do the same by yourself:
\catcode`(=\active \catcode`)=\active
\...
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Generating underaccents for Romanized Tamil
Minion Pro has a very short supply of accents and combining characters.
Here's a workaround for the macron below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\...
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Caron Accent \v{a} doesn't render without \usepackage{xeCJK}
Based on a trick by Egreg, this uses the \accent primitive. I chose to simply redefine \v.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec, newunicodechar}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\setmainfont[...
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Type ⟨ and ⟩ inside a \lstinline command
There are two different brackets in unicode and the typewriter font has only glyphs for one pair (U+2329, U+232A) (yes there are different even if they look quite similar depending on the font). You ...
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Combining \newunicodechar with delimiter sizes \big, \left, \right, etc
Using \ensuremath makes no sense.
You can make it work with pdflatex, but you have to use braces with \big or similar commands. Not with \left and \right.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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Redefine a symbol with \newunicodechar and pdflatex
You can't redefine a Unicode character in terms of itself, but you can always use its LICR; for § it is S.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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Unicode character error (inputenc package)
U+00B3 is superscript 3 so if you want to keep that you can define
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00B3}{\textsuperscript{3}}
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{newunicodechar} + \chapter{} produces two font-related warnings
With \newfontface you don't define a command that changes fonts respecting the current conditions. You may want that the \titik symbol doesn't respect a bold face condition, but the main problem is ...
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Unicode character error (inputenc package)
If you are free to switch to either LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, you needn't worry anymore about utf8-encoded characters; just load the fontspec package and load a suitable text font via a \setmainfont ...
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Package newunicodechar Error: ASCII character requested
The file as posted in the question is in UTF-8, matching the encoding declared to LaTeX. If you save it as 8bit Greek (ISO-2022 for example) then you get
! Package newunicodechar Error: ASCII ...
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Fallback for mathcal unicode characters in lualatex with proper height
I'm not seeing any OpenType font with the Computer Modern calligraphic letters. With Latin Modern Math you get a similar glyph. Anyway, I'm afraid you need to compute the scale factor yourself.
\...
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\newunicodechar fails for PRIME only
Judging from the error message you're using unicode-math.
The problem is that this package assigns a value to the “active ′” at begin document, thus overriding what your \newunicodechar does.
...
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Use \DeclareUnicodeCharacter with combined Unicode characters
It is hard, bordering impossible, to support unicode combining characters with pdftex.
This is not much of a problem in practice as (if using luatex is not an option) you can usually pre-process to ...
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Increase size of superscript letter diacritics
This substitutes dotless i for the base, and small ascii for the diacritic,and wraps the construct with ActualText with the original so it should cut and paste as Unicode diacritics
\documentclass[...
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Define "Macron below" / combining low line (U+0332) as a unicode character to underline text
U+035F isn't widely supported, U+0332 is better supported, including by the default latin modern, although the result is not that pretty.
Note you want support for combining characters in the font ...
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Automatically combine unicode double subscripts aᵢⱼ = a_{i}_{j} as a_{ij}
Below is a method that answers your original question: to combine the scripts together. Take superscript as an example, we have
\@unisupA, which inserts \sp\bgroup at the beginning;
\@unisupB, which ...
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Combining \newunicodechar with delimiter sizes \big, \left, \right, etc
For "academical" purpose, this is a macro that automatically braces the next Unicode character.
It does requires patching \big however. Unavoidably.
How TeX input stream works is a bit ...
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How to forbid a certain character from starting a line of output text? Specifically concerning Tibetan text
You can set things up so that the shad removes a blank space preceding it and substitutes it with a nonbreaking space.
This won't work if you want to color it; in that case, remember to have ~ in ...
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