| Summary: | tetex-3's utf-8 support is very basic only | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Lars Weiler (RETIRED) <pylon> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Text-Markup Team (OBSOLETE) <text-markup+disabled> |
| Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 124511 | ||
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. |
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