Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The LaTeX > source code in UTF-8 expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� > = U+FFFD) > So ... What fixed-width and variable-width OpenType (or

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Janusz S . Bień
On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 10:48 +02, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > >> Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The LaTeX >> source code in UTF-8 expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� >> = U+FFFD) >

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Philip Taylor (HI)
Ulrike Fischer wrote: With a current texlive you can use albatross to find out which fonts on your system support this albatross -d 0xFFFD I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug McKenna, but in the general case it does not work.  Here, using TeX Live 2021

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Janusz S . Bień
On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 15:20 +01, Philip Taylor (HI) wrote: > Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > With a current texlive you can use albatross to find out which fonts > on your system support this > >albatross -d 0xFFFD > > I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug McKenna,

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
Thanks all for your interesting responses. Unfortunately, my possibly poorly worded question remains unanswered. Let me try again. Consider the short example just used: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{DejaVu Serif} \begin{document} fffd \end{document}

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:20:22 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor (HI): > I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug > McKenna, but in the general case it does not work.  Here, using TeX Live > 2021 under Windows 7 Ultimate, the command "albatross" is unknown — > >> Microsoft

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread David Carlisle
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, 13:46 Janusz S. Bień, wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 10:48 +02, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > > > >> Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The > LaTeX source code in UTF-8 expressly

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:25:14 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > Thanks all for your interesting responses. > > Unfortunately, my possibly poorly worded question remains unanswered. Let me > try again. > > Consider the short example just used: > > \documentclass{article} >

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
Ulrike - Excellent. Thank you! Using \setmainfont{DejaVuSerif.ttf} works on my non-Linux machine, and it is not listed as "installed" in my Mac's FontBook, which means it's being used solely within the TeXosystem. DejaVuSerif is a variable-width font. Is there a similar fixed-width