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# 7 Documents with text that is not in English

If you make figures containing text objects in languages other than English, you will need to enter accented characters, or characters from other scripts such as Greek, Cyrillic, Farsi, Arabic, Hangul, Kana, or Chinese characters.

Of course you can still use the LaTeX syntax `K\"onig` to enter the German word "König", but for larger runs of text it's more convenient to enter text in a script supported by your system. When Ipe writes the LaTeX source file, it writes the text in UTF-8 encoded Unicode. You have to make sure that your LaTeX setup can handle this file.

- 7.1 Pdflatex for latin and cyrillic scripts
- 7.2 Using Xetex
- 7.3 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
- 7.4 Right-to-left writing: Farsi, Hebrew, and Arabic