Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Chinese Characters

[mdk31]

Hi,

I'm compiling on MacTex and I'm having a terrible time trying to get Chinese characters to display.

I have:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi}
你好吗
\end{CJK}
\end{document}
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

But when I run pdflatex, I just get question marks in the pdf.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[shadgrind]

I copied and pasted your code into Emacs then ran pdflatex on it, and the Chinese characters displayed correctly in Acrobat Reader. This was using TeX Live 2010 in Linux.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps your source file is not being saved with UTF-8 encoding. This is what I get when running the 'file' command on the source file:

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$ file chinese.tex
chinese.tex: LaTeX 2e document, UTF-8 Unicode text
 
 
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You should be able to do that in OS X. If it shows some other encoding besides UTF-8, then there's your problem. Some text editors have a hard time with Unicode, but Emacs handles it just fine.

[mdk31]

I wonder if the problem is with TeXShop. Whenever I type in Chinese characters and save the file, when I try to open it up again, question marks appear. Do you know away around this, other than just using a different editor?

[mdk31]

Yeah, it's just TeXShop, since it compiles fine in TexWorks.

This may seem like a trivial point, but does anyone know why this is? I like using TeXShop more.

[shadgrind]

There should be a setting in the Preferences menu in TeXShop that sets the default save/read for new files as UTF-8.

[mdk31]

Now I'm having a new issue. Certain characters won't display. Here is my code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi}
工作经历
\end{CJK}
\end{document}
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

But only the first two characters appear in the pdf file.

[shadgrind]

I got the same thing. Looking in the log file I saw two messages about missing characters in the bsmi fonts. So in the \begin{CJK} command I changed the {bsmi} option to {gbsn}, and then all the characters showed up in the PDF file.