[pdftex] Vietnamese fails to print some particular phrase

Prabhu prabhu6707 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 12:19:52 CET 2009


Hi Reinhard,
Thanks for your help..

> ..... Please note that some Unicode characters share the same glyph.  An
example is
> /Dcroat and /Eth (Đ)......

In this case, what I have to do, to tell the Unicode chars to take the
correct glyph? and What font files are mandatory for Vietnamese, so that
they contain necessary glyphs.

Does vnTex package contain necessary fonts(glyph)?

Regards,
Prabhu.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:

>  On 8 December 2009 Prabhu wrote:
>
>  > In my .tex file, I use T5 fontenc to produce vietnamese font. I can able
> to
>  > generate output (using pdflatex) with most of the phrase text. But some
>  > phrases throws a error.  can some one help in pointing the cause of the
>  > error.. Thanks.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > The probalamatic phrase is
>  >
>  > "Tham khảo Phần 3 trong Phiếu an toàn hóa chất này về
>  > phân loại theo GHS"
>  >
>  > And the error is
>  >
>  > ! Package ucs Error: Please activate option 'combine'.
>
> Hi Prabhu,
> I just copied the text into a text editor and had to remove the
> Vietnamese characters and write them again.  They look different now,
> maybe you didn't use the correct Unicode code points.  Please note
> that some Unicode characters share the same glyph.  An example is
> /Dcroat and /Eth (Đ).  If you are using /Eth in Vietnamese, everything
> looks correct in your text editor but TeX will fail because it's not
> defined in Vietnamese.
>
> The file below works fine for me.
>
> BTW, I'm using Emacs-23.1
>   Encoding: UTF-8
>   Input Method: vietnamese-viqr (mode line indicator:VQ)
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[T5]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[vietnam]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> Tham khảo Phần 3 trong Phiếu an toàn hóa chất này về phân loại theo GHS
> \end{document}
>
>
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