Why Latex doesn't recognize language characters?
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Add \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
into your preamble if you don't have alreay. UTF-8
encoding should fix the problems with unicode characters.
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Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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minus over 1 year
Im using Latex in Linux, was writing and compiling a text in portuguese, everything was working ok, when suddenly all the words with special characters [ ç á à â ã ] intead of those now i have --compo???o-- words with question marks in editor as well as when compiling, would apreciate any help
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minus over 7 yearsThanks for the support --mwormser--, I used:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
to write portuguese but also had to change the format of the source-file in the linux command line with:iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 file.tex > newfile.tex
(newfile is now utf8) and also change the format of the latex editor (texmaker) in the options to: UTF8. After doing all these things I can write and compile again in portuguese. The only bad detail is that I couldnt get back the source-text as it was before I still have those question marks in the source-text. Any suggestion I ll apreciate it -
Ian over 7 yearsIf you do not have a backup copy of your original text you might be out of luck there and have to replace the broken characters manually, sorry.