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Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex
Added by Nhu Le over 11 years ago
I have been trying to output some vietnamese text but I have an error saying
Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.
This turned out to be a space that is not supported. If I remove the space and put my own space then it would be ok. Since I am using the cvssimple package to generate my files, I would like to either fix it or automate the process.
I have tried several things: using utf8x package, using textcomp package. But I have the same problem.
Do you have any suggestion?
Thank you.
Replies (6)
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe over 11 years ago
It is very hard to help you without a minimal file showing your problem...
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Nhu Le over 11 years ago
I am sorry. Attached is the simple pdf file I used to test the program.
It looks like the byte "A0" and "CC" may be the problem. I can probably remove them from the file but I would like to know the real problem and a good way to fix it.
unicode_input.txt (65 Bytes)
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe over 11 years ago
Can you also send the source LaTeX file so that we can reproduce the problem easily?
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Nhu Le over 11 years ago
I trimmed the .tex file to get a minimal case
dhcd.person.csv (77 Bytes)
input.tex (1 kB)
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Nhu Le over 11 years ago
I think the problem is that my configuration does not support Unicode Composite. It does support Unicode correctly.
If I use a converter to convert the input file from Unicode Composite (which is a legacy unicode???) to Unicode then it would work. One such converter can be found on sourceforge.
If we can find a way to support this, I would be very happy but at least there is one workaround for this problem.
Nhu
RE: Some symbols are not available when using pdflatex - Added by Alexis Bienvenüe over 11 years ago
Thanks. It seems that xelatex
can handle this kind of encoding properly. Try to replace
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T5]{fontenc}
with
\usepackage{xltxtra}
and use
xelatex
instead of pdflatex
as the LaTeX engine (when compiling separately, and/or in Edit/Preferences/Project/External commands/LaTeX engine).(1-6/6)