[tex-live] moving ucs back to -recommended

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:38:17AM +0100, Vedran Mileti?? wrote:

> 2010/3/10 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > >From a Debian bug report:
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Decklin Foster <decklin at red-bean.com> -----
> >> Somewhere between Lenny and now, ucs.sty was moved from -recommended
> >> to -extra. As UTF-8 support is (I believe) a release goal, I would
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
> > I somehow agree that making inputting utf8 with -recommended would be
> > a nice thing. I don't want to dig through the dependencies now, but
> > are there any specific reasons why we moved ucs package to latexextra?
> 
> Aside from already mentioned things, ucs also breaks pdf title, author
> and keywords. It gets stuff like
> [Pleaseinsert\??????rerenderUnicode{Å??}intopreamble] for every non-ASCII
> character.

Catched in hyperref 2010/03/10 v6.80m (TUG server, tomorrow CTAN).

BTW: \PrerenderUnicode from ucs.sty:

| \uc at newcommand\PrerenderUnicode{%
|   \@ifstar{\@prerenderunicode\unichar}{\@prerenderunicode\@gobble}}%
| \uc at newcommand\@prerenderunicode#1#2{%
|   \begingroup
|   \UnicodeCharFilter\@gobble
|   \let#1\@gobble\setbox0\hbox{#2}\endgroup}

should use "\sbox0{#2}" instead of "\setbox0\hbox{#2}" to prevent
leakage of color specials.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>