diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 55fefa4c..fc460751 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ GR = "28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71"
 GeometryBasics = "5c1252a2-5f33-56bf-86c9-59e7332b4326"
 GeometryTypes = "4d00f742-c7ba-57c2-abde-4428a4b178cb"
 JSON = "682c06a0-de6a-54ab-a142-c8b1cf79cde6"
+Latexify = "23fbe1c1-3f47-55db-b15f-69d7ec21a316"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Measures = "442fdcdd-2543-5da2-b0f3-8c86c306513e"
 NaNMath = "77ba4419-2d1f-58cd-9bb1-8ffee604a2e3"
diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index bf469525..01b488f3 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using Contour: Contour
 using UUIDs
+using Latexify
 Base.@kwdef mutable struct PGFPlotsXPlot
     is_created::Bool = false
     was_shown::Bool = false
@@ -1040,6 +1041,9 @@ function pgfx_sanitize_string(s::AbstractString)
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\&" => "\\&")
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\{" => "\\{")
     s = replace(s, r"\\?\}" => "\\}")
+    s = map(split(s, "")) do s
+            isascii(s) ? s : latexify(s)
+            end |> join
 end
 @require LaTeXStrings = "b964fa9f-0449-5b57-a5c2-d3ea65f4040f" begin
     using .LaTeXStrings