foreign letters causing error during compilation

Hi, While playing with manim I wanted to write text (in polish) and noticed that using letters “ą/ę” (right alt + a/e) causes error during compilation. Please check when using example_scenes/basic.py and if you change WriteStuff so that letter “ą” is in variable named example_text, compiling it throws an error Exception: LaTeX error converting to dvi. See log output above or the log file: media/Tex/7e3c37ceb1ce05b9.log. I have noticed that in the corresponding .tex file there is no \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}.

Same problem shows when trying to compile .tex with texmaker but after adding “\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}” to .tex file in texmaker it compiles succesfully. Can you tell manim to add “\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}” to every .tex file that it generates? I think it should solve the problem.

Additional problem is that letter “ł” and “Ł” are not animated properly but I think after solving problem above it may also be solved.

Thank you very much and regards

[PhilippImhof]

Yes of course. I will do so as soon as I get back from my short trip.

[mz71]

The way to work out this (at least for me) was to

• include inputenc
• include [polish]{babel}
• for above to work, you need to delete \usepackage[english]{babel}. I’ve used

tpl = TexTemplate()
tpl.CONFIG["common_packages"].remove(["babel",["english"]])

in order to not change the default template. It can probably be done way easier - but still, “Zażółć gęślą jaźń” rendered just fine.