Latin1 characters not being rendered in Quarto

[igorlaltuf]

I'm trying to generate a pdf report in Portuguese, but words with accents are not rendered.

Is there any way to change the encoding used in rendering to Latin1?

[dragonstyle]

I think the issue is likely the font (you need to use a unicode font in your PDF document). If you're using the default out of the box PDF generation in Quarto, you'll be using the xelatex PDF engine and you can set the fonts like so:

---
title: Test unicode content
format:
  pdf:  
    mainfont: DejaVuSerif.ttf
    sansfont: DejaVuSans.ttf
    monofont: DejaVuSansMono.ttf
---

## probabilístico

probabilístico 

```
probabilístico
```

HTH!

[igorlaltuf]

@dragonstyle Apparently that's the problem, but the error persists even with the suggested font. Do you know where I can find the unicode fonts available in Quarto?

[igorlaltuf]

I was able to make it work by reopening the file in RStudio with UTF-8 encoding (even using it in Windows).