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I wish to enter arbitrary Unicode characters while writing in Plain TeX using the pdfTeX engine. How may this be achieved? I have already referred to this question, but the solution assumes the use of LaTeX, whereas I am using Plain TeX. Thanks a lot.

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  • Just use a Unicode engine with a Unicode font and enter it directly. – Henri Menke Dec 26 '16 at 18:48
  • Is there a reason for only considering pdfTeX but not XeTeX or LuaTeX? – Mico Dec 26 '16 at 19:06
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    pdftex has no support for unicode, it is possible to emulate certain aspects of Unicode encodings in the macro layer but plain tex has no such macros you could input a version of the latex macros into plain tex, but that is more or less equivalent to using latex, which you say you do not want to do. – David Carlisle Dec 26 '16 at 19:52
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    A starting point is http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/163852/how-to-input-accents-in-plaintex-with-utf-8-encoding but you need to find yourself the fonts for the needed characters. – egreg Dec 26 '16 at 20:40

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With LuaTeX and XeTeX you get Unicode support for free.

\ifdefined\directlua
  \input luaotfload.sty
\fi

\font\tenrm="CMU Serif"
\rm

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\bye

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  • When I try this, I get the error: Font \tenrm=CMU Serif not loadable: metric data not found or bad. – ceving Apr 12 '19 at 09:34