Talk:LaTeX/Special Characters

If you are typing a whole document in a language other than English, it's cumbersome to type each individual accent as, e.g., \~{} -- i.e., you'd rather type the accents directly in the source code in the native language. I can accomplish that including the following three lines in the tex file header:


 * This article explains a lot about character encoding. I strongly discourage the use of latin1; utf8 should be the preferred encoding for technical and compatibility reasons. See the article for more explaination. Font encoding is explained in Fonts. --20:30, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Unicode
Think there should be a section about alternatives using native Unicode such as XeLaTeX for pdflatex with biber for biblatex. Erik Itter (discuss • contribs) 21:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Error in section: Other Symbols
In the table, the command for "}" is not displaying correctly: It shows "\UNIQ--nowiki-00000054-QINU" instead of "\}". I don't know enough to fix it, so I'm going to leave it to someone who does. ~ Shankarsivarajan (discuss • contribs) 08:45, 18 July 2015 (UTC)