Matlab publish to pdf unicode characters print statements

I am trying to publish my code to pdf and use unicode characters as mathmatical variables. A simplified example would be:

% delta

fprintf('\x03B4\n')

Output:

δ

I would like this to show up in the published pdf but the output is replaced with '#' instead.

Answer 1

[Bhanu Prakash]

Hi Brandon,

This issue might occur if MATLAB didn't interpret the unicode properly. Instead you can use either of the following two commands to get the output as 'δ':

fprintf('%s\n', char(0x03B4)) % command-1
fprintf('%s\n', char(hex2dec('03B4'))) % command-2 using hex2dec

For more information on the 'hex2dec' funciton, you can refer to the following documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/hex2dec.html

Hope this helps!

[Brandon]

They do both output correctly to the command window but unfortunately they do not publish in the pdf form. MATLAB seems to interpret the unicode properly only when outputting to the command window and not when publishing and idk why.