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
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/ ).
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).
(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.
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.