! Undefined control sequence. for Hindi Unicode chars

Question

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{displaymath}
स्कूल
\end{displaymath}
\end{document}

This tex file throwing error ! Undefined control sequence.

I want to to use Unicode hindi chars in tex

yes I compile same file with xetex and it gives same error. and with xelatex it does not give any error but pdf came blank. — Akki Tyagi, Dec 15 '17 at 05:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '17 at 05:56

What's happening in your case is that utf8x defines (for instance) the letter स as \textdevanagarisa. I think that in turn is meant to be used with the LDV font encoding, which tries to use arialuni090t, and… it's all a mess.

Instead, just use XeTeX, with any font of your choice — compile the following with xelatex:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial Unicode MS} % Or any font of your choice, which covers Devanagari
\tracinglostchars=2 % Usability bug in TeX: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/41230/48

\begin{document}
स्कूल
\end{document}

You can use any system font that covers the Devanagari characters that you care about. (Also, you may want to pass [Script=Devanagari] to \setmainfont.) If your document contains a mixture of Devanagari and non-Devanagari (English, say) text, then you can use the polyglossia package and switch between languages when necessary, etc.

! Undefined control sequence. for Hindi Unicode chars

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