Ubuntu 9.10 texlive is "too new" and all texi2pdf/pdflatex, etc. generated pdf-files have the "tilde problem"

[Joni Kamarainen]

Binary package hint: texinfo

Reason is this unfixed bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534458

And it harms all people installing/upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 and using it for scientific writing...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 24 13:07:00 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-4ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: texinfo
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[Joni Kamarainen (joni-kamarainen)]

There seems to be a simple workaround: include babel package to your latex document, for example:

\usepackage[english]{babel}