Message 303590 - Python tracker

Message303590

Author	mdk
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, docs@python, ezio.melotti, fabrice, linkid, mdk, vstinner
Date	2017-10-03.09:47:48
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Message-id	<1507024068.45.0.213398074469.issue31589@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I personally do not care about using utf8x, it has been introduced in: r74549 \| benjamin.peterson \| 2009-08-24 12:42:36 -0500 (Mon, 24 Aug 2009) \| 1 line fix pdf building by teaching latex the right encoding package # Get LaTeX to handle Unicode correctly latex_elements = {'inputenc': r'\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}'} I tried with utf8 instead and it yielded a different set of errors, so I did not tried much. But utf8-induced bugs may be easier to fix that utf8x-induced bugs, I don't know.

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I personally do not care about using utf8x, it has been introduced in:

  r74549 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-08-24 12:42:36 -0500 (Mon, 24 Aug 2009) | 1 line
  fix pdf building by teaching latex the right encoding package

  # Get LaTeX to handle Unicode correctly
  latex_elements = {'inputenc': r'\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}'}

I tried with utf8 instead and it yielded a different set of errors, so I did not tried much. But utf8-induced bugs may be easier to fix that utf8x-induced bugs, I don't know.

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