[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#749891: pandoc: doesn't support some Unicode characters with PDF output

[Vincent Lefevre]

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

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