Fonts & Character SetsWriting in Chinese

Information and discussion about fonts and character sets (e.g. how to use language specific characters)
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thatwasafreebie
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Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:44 am

Writing in Chinese

Post by thatwasafreebie »

I'm running MikTeX 2.8 on Windows 7 and I'm trying to input some Chinese characters into my Latex document. My file currently looks like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}

\begin{document}
Who are you?
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi}你是誰?\end{CJK}
\end{document}
But when I run that I get this:

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Trying to make PK font bsmiuff at 600 DPI...
Running miktex-makemf.exe...
miktex-makemf: The bsmiuff source file could not be found.

Running ttf2pk.exe...
miktex-makepk: PK font bsmiuff could not be created.
 )
!pdfTeX error: miktex-pdftex (file bsmiuff): Font bsmiuff at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
I've been trouble shooting for a couple hours scouring multiple boards and such and
haven't found much to solve this problem

Thanks in adavance

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justdeath
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Writing in Chinese

Post by justdeath »

It works. I am using TeX Live 2011 on Windows XP.

Created new file in Notepad++ with UTF-8 (without BOM) and copyed your code, Notepad++ displays squares, not the characters themselves (because I haven't installed Chinese fonts), but it compiles correctly.
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