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Bug#749891: marked as done (pandoc: doesn't support some Unicode characters with PDF output)

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and subject line Re: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#749891: pandoc: doesn't support some      Unicode characters with PDF output
has caused the Debian Bug report #749891,
regarding pandoc: doesn't support some Unicode characters with PDF output
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Package: pandoc
Version: 1.12.3.3~dfsg-1+b11
Severity: normal

$ cat file
a ≤ b
$ pandoc file -o out.pdf
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:≤ not set up for use with LaTeX.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.50 a ≤

Try running pandoc with --latex-engine=xelatex.

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If I try with --latex-engine=xelatex, I no longer get an error, but
the "≤" character doesn't appear. There are similar problems with
other characters. See e.g. Markus Kuhn's UTF-8-demo.txt from:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pandoc depends on:
ii  libc6        2.18-7
ii  libffi6      3.1~rc1+r3.0.13-12
ii  libgmp10     2:6.0.0+dfsg-4
ii  libicu52     52.1-3
ii  liblua5.1-0  5.1.5-5
ii  libpcre3     1:8.31-5
ii  libyaml-0-2  0.1.4-3.2
ii  pandoc-data  1.12.3.3~dfsg-1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

pandoc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pandoc suggests:
pn  etoolbox                   <none>
pn  pandoc-citeproc            <none>
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2014.20140528-1
ii  texlive-luatex             2014.20140528-1
ii  texlive-xetex              2014.20140528-1

-- no debconf information

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Quoting Vincent Lefevre (2014-05-30 17:28:05)
> On 2014-05-30 07:47:08 -0700, John MacFarlane wrote:
> > Most likely this is because you're using a font that doesn't have
> > these glyphs.  Try with
> > 
> >    -V mainfont="FONT NAME"
> > 
> > where FONT NAME is a (ttf) font you have installed that has the 
> > character in question.
> 
> Using mainfont='DejaVu Sans Mono' works, but
> 
> * by default, pandoc should use a font that has the character in
> question (the default X11 fonts have it);
> 
> * if the character isn't present, it should output an error.
> 
> But if pandoc had correct pdflatex support, there would be no
> problems (I use UTF-8 math characters in my LaTeX files without
> any problem).

Pandoc could indeed by default use a font like Noto which strives 
towards universal glyph coverage (even if arguably dull looking).

Or it could by default us a nice modern looking font.

Or a nice classic looking font.

Pandoc makes no promise about its choice of default font, and it is 
therefore not a bug that _your_ expectations are not met.

Thanks for reporting this, and arguing your case.  I will however close 
this as a non-bug.


 - Jonas

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