#8036: Sage 4.3.1 reference manual: PDF version failed to build due to non-ASCII
characters in docstring
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Reporter: mvngu | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.3.2
Component: documentation | Keywords: non-ASCII
characters
Author: Minh Van Nguyen, John Palmieri | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by tornaria):
Replying to [comment:5 jhpalmieri]:
> Replying to [comment:3 jhpalmieri]:
> > I have no experience with [utf8] or [utf8x], but the documentation for
inputenc frowns on utf8x, to some extent.
>
> In case you're interested in this, the documentation says
>
> For other languages that do not fit well into LaTeX font selection
scheme, ... the outlined inputenc approach will not work. If that is the
case one can try using Dominique Unruh’s option utf8x for inputenc which
has a somewhat different approach and encodes many more UTF-8 characters
than the standard utf8 option. However, we recommend to do so only if you
really need such alphabets as there are problems with this extended
approach which were precisely the reason that we decided to limit the
support to what is properly supported within the boundaries of LaTeX’s
font selection.
>
> I don't know what the "problems with this extended approach" are.
I use [utf8x] on a daily basis, without issues. As you quoted above, it is
well known that [utf8] supports a reduced set of characters. Not that
utf8x supports arbitrary unicode characters, but I think a proper superset
of those supported by utf8.
The option [utf8x] is part of latex package "ucs".
Your proposal (according to the posted patch) would be to special-case any
characters not supported by [utf8] option? The patch only handles that
particular letter.
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