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Bug 145705 - tetex-3's utf-8 support is very basic only
Summary: tetex-3's utf-8 support is very basic only
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE)
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Blocks: 124511
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Reported: 2006-08-31 05:39 UTC by Lars Weiler (RETIRED)
Modified: 2006-10-23 14:25 UTC (History)
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Description Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-31 05:39:01 UTC
I used to write my documents and slides in utf-8 for years now.  With tetex-2 I used \usepackage{ucs} and \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} from dev-tex/latex-unicode.

With tetex-3 there is a utf8.def now.  But it contains only very basic support. A couple of characters are missing, like 
Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-31 05:39:01 UTC
I used to write my documents and slides in utf-8 for years now.  With tetex-2 I used \usepackage{ucs} and \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} from dev-tex/latex-unicode.

With tetex-3 there is a utf8.def now.  But it contains only very basic support. A couple of characters are missing, like ½ → ¼ (don't know if bugzilla shows it correctly, but it's 1/2 -> 1/4 ).

A workaround is still using latex-unicode.  But it's (unfortunately) unmaintained upstream now (see http://www.unruh.de/DniQ/latex/unicode/ ).
Comment 2 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-31 05:44:59 UTC
So what do you propose we do?
It could be that TeXLives unicode support is better and we could use it in tetex-3, I'll look at it when I'm back for good(TM).
Comment 3 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-31 06:27:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> So what do you propose we do?

My intension of this bug was, that we track the problems with tetex-3 before it goes into stable.

I can also have a look into TeX live's sources, if they provide a better utf8.def.
Comment 4 Alexandre Buisse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-10-23 14:25:05 UTC
Closing as LATER since latex-unicode works fine with our tetex releases which will be the last ones. We'll reopen if this is still an issue with TeXlive when we make the switch.