pdf generation for Chinese text

[Finjon Kiang]

When generating PDF with Chinese characters, it will return error message:
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:xxx not set up for use with LaTeX.

I must type the following commands manually to generate Chinese pdf:
pandoc -o c.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex -V mainfont='WenQuanYi Micro Hei' test

Would you like to provide an option to set commands behind the button?

[Wolf Vollprecht (w-vollprecht)]

Hi Finjon,

I am wondering: If you don't change the font, does it still work (with
XeLaTeX?)

Cheers,

Wolf

2014-02-17 22:22 GMT-05:00 Finjon Kiang <email address hidden>:

> Public bug reported:
>
> When generating PDF with Chinese characters, it will return error message:
> pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:xxx not set up for use with
> LaTeX.
>
> I must type the following commands manually to generate Chinese pdf:
> pandoc -o c.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex -V mainfont='WenQuanYi Micro Hei'
> test
>
> Would you like to provide an option to set commands behind the button?
>
> ** Affects: uberwriter
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281389
>
> Title:
> pdf generation for Chinese text
>
> Status in This is the project for UberWriter:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> When generating PDF with Chinese characters, it will return error
> message:
> pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:xxx not set up for use with
> LaTeX.
>
> I must type the following commands manually to generate Chinese pdf:
> pandoc -o c.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex -V mainfont='WenQuanYi Micro Hei'
> test
>
> Would you like to provide an option to set commands behind the button?
>
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[Finjon Kiang (kiange)]

If I don't specify the font, then the Chinese characters in the generated pdf file are all gone in Document Viewer 3.10.0. But it doesn't have error messages.

The attachment shows the differences of output between two commands:
pandoc -o c.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex test
pandoc -o c2.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex -V mainfont='WenQuanYi Micro Hei' test