Bug#253117: tetex-base: package inputenc does not handle utf8 encoding well

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

reassign 253117 muttprint
stop

Kees Leune <C.J.Leune@uvt.nl> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 2.0.2-8
> Severity: normal
>
> When using the package inputenc with option [utf8] like so:
>
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> latex complains:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `utf8.def' not found.

This is a wishlist thing that will be fixed when tetex-3.0 enters the
archive. (Probably tetex-3.0 will not enter sarge). utf8 didn't work
upstream when tetex-2.0 was released, and backporting is not feasible.

> Note that this problem was detected when muttprint(1) was unable to
> print UTF8 encoded messages.

Then it is a bug in muttprint. Until tetex-3 is available, it has to
take care for proper recoding of the input. You cannot rely on things
that work with packages on CTAN if they're not in tetex's upstream yet.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie