Problems printing special characters (slovene) in latex reports

Question

I am having trouble printing special characters (ščž) in a pdf report made by knitr.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, oneside]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[slovene]{babel} \begin{document} <<>>= plot(runif(100), main = "ŠČĆŽ ščćž") @ \end{document} 

Answer 1

Based on Yihui comments (see also comments below), here is a solution that worked for me. The .Rnw document I'm working with is encoded as UTF-8.

The key must indicate the encoding on knit .

Please note that we still do not see "č" (for media without media, you can read this character as "ch").

The problem can be solved by specifying a different printing device. Try specifying dev = "CairoPDF" (requires the optional CairoPDF package) or dev = "cairo_pdf" (doesn't require the additional packages) in your chunk option.

 <<dev = "CairoPDF">>= plot(runif(100), main = "ŠČĆŽ ščćž") @ 

or

 <<dev = "cairo_pdf">>= plot(runif(100), main = "ŠČĆŽ ščćž") @ 

If you use Eclipse + StatET to frict your reports, you can configure these options to automate your workflow.