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I have a question regarding writing a PDF in LATEX. I need to use diacritcs and I found out how to use some of them, but I can't add the 'ă' symbol. How can I do that?

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You have two choices:

The first one is to include utf-8 encoding in the preamble. Then, you can write many special characters from your keyboard and they will be interpreted:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}

ă

\end{document}

On the other hand, you can just use \u{a} without including the utf-8 package in the preamble. If you edit your documents in Kile, there is a list of special characters that fits most western languages, in case you do not known the code.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\u{a}

\end{document}

You may also want to check this page: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters

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Rodrigo
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    One way or the other, one should load also fontenc in order to make the pdf file searchable. – campa Mar 08 '17 at 11:22