Getting Greek characters to display properly in a PDF generated from Markdown with Pandoc has caused some frustration today - here's what eventually worked for me:
Use xelatex instead of pdflatex:
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex
Use Linux Liberatine O as the font in your Markdown metadata:
mainfont: "Linux Libertine O"
I'm a bit sad that I can't use Palatino, which I think is a nicer font, but Linux Libertine 'just worked' and is free (as in beer and speech).
@pwaring The exact font is going to matter (because of all sorts of weirdly technical encoding issues).
I was going to suggest that if you're doing greek you might want to try one of the many fonts from Greek Font Society, then i noticed that their first font on their 20th/21st century page is accompanied with a Palatino-like latin: https://greekfontsociety-gfs.gr/typefaces/20th_21st_century
@drj Thanks. I think I might need to do some work to get it looking right in LaTeX (some words are really off, like 'introduction') but the Greek rendering is nicer than Linux Libertine.
@penguin42 I don't think so - the problem isn't that the characters don't look right, but that xelatex (and pdflatex) won't even compile because they don't recognise Περικλῆς.
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