{unicode} is for questions about Unicode (an international standard for character encoding) and its implementations. For questions about input encodings in general, use {encodings}. For questions specifically about the `inputenc` package, use {inputenc}.
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How to typeset Tibetan in XeLatex with correct linebreaks?
I am trying to typeset Tibetan language in a document, but the text does not wrap at the margin. I think this could be easily fixed if I tell XeLaTeX to recognise the Tibetan tsheg character ('TIBETAN ...
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Syriac Abbreviation Mark
I'm trying to implement in XeLaTeX the Syriac Abbreviation Mark (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Abbreviation_Mark).
The code I came up with is the following:
\catcode`^^^^070f=13
...
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Using Greek letters in LaTeX tables
I have the following Rnw document which I intend should produce a small table with "a b c" and "α β γ". At the moment, the encoding seems to be causing problems. The funny thing is that the output in ...
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bookmarks: diacritics, umlauts and special characters [closed]
Why are the bookmarks in my pdf documents (created by LuaLaTeX) not correct? E.g., I get Faḫr al-DÄ«n al-RĆzÄ« instead of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. In general diacritics, umlauts and special characters ...
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Entering unicode math symbols into LaTeX, direct from keyboard, on a Mac
I would like:
my LaTeX source file to contain Unicode characters (e.g. I want to see λα．α ≠ β not \lambda\alpha\ldotp\alpha\neq\beta)
to type these characters directly from my keyboard (e.g. I want ...
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verbments (listings alternative) and UTF-8
This is a follow-up question to UTF8 for listings
With these MWE I will not see the german umlauts in the resulted pdf (XeLaTeX was used):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbments}
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UTF8 for listings
With German umlauts I have to define these characters (Typesetting UTF8 listings with German Umlaute) and the following MWE is working:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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How to include the € symbol? [duplicate]
In my *.cls class file I loaded
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
(does the order of the two matter?)
and get the following error message: Command \texteuro unavailable in ...
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votes
2answers
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Enter single unicode code point in (dvi)latex and latin1 input
For various reasons, I'm stuck with (dvi)latex and inputencoding latin1. I still want to enter unicode codepoints (I have the hex/decimal numbers ready).
I have seen ...
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Unicode char \u8:动 not set up for use with LaTeX
I m generating one chinese report and getting following error.
Unicode char \u8:动 not set up for use with LaTeX.
i m using including following packages.
\usepackage[LGRx,T1]{fontenc}
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Babel not working on OS X? [closed]
I'm using a MacBook Air, with OS X, and I have great difficulties in using Latex in my native language (serbian).
If I use the standard babel package in TexShop:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Non-ASCII characters in Biblatex
I am using biblatex with backend=biber and the following .bib file:
@article{concellon_synthesis_2006,
title = {Synthesis of Enantiopure ({αS,βS)-} or ({αR,βS)-β-Amino} Alcohols by Complete ...
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error using special characters in in biblatex with LuaLaTeX
I am using LuaLaTeX and biblatex which the biblatex manual says should be able to compile utf. At the bottom of this message is a minimal non-working example. In the final PDF it just deletes all the ...
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representing literal characters in a \newcommand or \def
Consider this short LaTeX document:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
\def\name{...}
\begin{document}
Hello: \name
...
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How to make a given thesis template compatible with German umlauts (error with Unicode char)
To Thesis.tex (of Sunil Patel's Thesis Template.zip) I added these two lines (to allow for German special characters):
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % my edit
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % my edit
in ...
