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If you make figures containing text objects in languages other than English, you will need to enter accented characters, or characters from other scripts such as Greek, Hangul, Kana, or Chinese characters. Of course you can still use the LaTeX syntax `K\"onig` to enter the German word "König", but for larger runs of text it's more convenient to enter text in a script supported by your system. When Ipe writes the Pdflatex source file, it writes the text in UTF-8 encoded Unicode. You only have to make sure that Pdflatex can handle this file.

An easy solution, sufficient for German, French, and other languages for which support is already in a standard LaTeX-setup, is to add the line

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

in your Latex preamble (set in the Document properties dialog, available on the Edit menu).

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