Text Formatting ⇒ Displaying unicode in latex file

[ponilavarasu]

Dear Genius,

How to display the unicode character output in latex document using pdflatex option.

Regards
Pon ilavarasu

[Ijon Tichy]

Current LaTeX already supports it (if you use a proper font encoding, proper font and for some characters some additional packages):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
ÄÖÜéâ€
\end{document}

With older LaTeX distributions you need \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. But this does not provide all unicode symbols. For some you have to load additional symbol fonts and declare the character yourself using \DeclareUnicodeCharacter or package newunicodechar.

Things would become more easy using xelatex or lualatex and a font that provides all needed glyphs.