Re: Unicode characters for transcribing to pdf

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday, 31 Aug 2022 at 16:32, wilnerthomas--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> Then using pdflatex to make the pdf.  But pdflatex is reporting that
> unicode character ħ (U+0127) is not set up for use with LaTeX.
>
> What Gnu program could I use that is UTF-8 aware?

Instead of using another program, you can tell LaTeX how to generate the
character you want when it is encountered.  Something along these lines
should work:

\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{α}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}
\newunicodechar{±}{\ensuremath{\pm}}

based on the newunicodechar package and assuming you can build up the
character glyph you want from basic LaTeX commands, including maths
mode.

HTH,
eric

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Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-08-16) on Debian 11.4