On Sa, 09 Feb 2008, Thomas Folz-Donahue wrote:
> > Yeah, after looking more carefully I think I see what the report wanted
> > to do -- use the unicode character ?? instead of \rho in LaTeX math mode.
> > Well, it won't surprise me it didn't work.
>
> Look more carefully. That ?? was outside any math mode (though there
> were some ???,???, and x in math mode).
>
> test.tex tests a Greek character, a few Cyrillic characters, some
> mathematical symbols in math mode, some symbols outside of math mode,
> and a Chinese character. None of the TeX engines can find any of
> them.
That is a COMPLETELY different problem. You didn't select a FONT that
provides this characters.
Per default the TeX engines use cmr10, and this font *definitely* does
not have support for Chinese, Cyrillic or whatever fonts.
What you are asking for is "automatic font selection depending on the
used character set".
That is not possible as is, you might want to look at either Omega/Aleph
where you can write OTP inserting font switching commands on the fly
(see my otibet package for omega), or xetex with a unicode font
providing most characters.
> XeTeX 0.995 had "preliminary support for the full range of Unicode
> letters in math mode" (see
That is something different than fonts ready for that!!!
> In standard LaTeX, it isn't a bug, because standard LaTeX has no
> unicode support. However, XeTeX and Aleph should at least support the
> Greek, Cyrillic and Chinese characters. A full install of texlive
> even includes font support for Cherokee.
They DO support the stuff, you need to select the right FONT!
(from my point of few this bug can be closed)
Best wishes
Norbert
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None of the TeX engines installed in texlive-full know where any of the fonts
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