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Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

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On 26/08/2023 19:08, Haines Brown wrote:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article} %
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} %
> \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} % to make Greek charactes available

It seems, you are overestimating effect. You still need to provide 
fontenc containing Greek characters. Unless you have real reasons to 
avoid LuaTeX, I recommend you to use lualatex instead of pdflatex.

> \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2014}{\dash} % to get m-dash

Do you really need it? Even without explicit declaration there is no 
issue with pdflatex and U+2014 character

\begin{document}
Test—character.
\end{document}

Not to mention

     Test---ligature.

On the other hand in response to

\begin{document}
Test\dash{}test.
\end{document}

I get

! Undefined control sequence.
l.7 Test\dash
              {}test.
?

There is \textemdash command however. So you \DeclareUnicodeCharacter is 
incorrect and almost certainly unnecessary.

> If I paste an upper case Omega % Ω
> into a LaTeX file and run pdflatex on it I am told the character is not
> set up for LaTeX. \$ albatross tells me it is available in the DejaVu
> Sans font which I have installed.

It is sour, but in general even with LuaTeX engine you have to 
explicitly specify particular font. In the specific case of "Ω", the 
character is available in lmodern (default font used by LuaTeX). Unlike 
browsers or office software, TeX engines do not try hard to find at 
least some font that can be used as a fallback for particular character.

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LaTex Unicode entry issues Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2023-08-24 22:40 +0200
  Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-08-24 23:00 +0200
  Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-08-25 06:30 +0200
    Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues tomas@tuxteam.de - 2023-08-25 06:30 +0200
  Re: LaTeX Unicode entry issues Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-08-25 08:30 +0200
  Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-08-25 17:00 +0200
    Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Charles Kroeger <mbone@gmx.co.uk> - 2023-08-26 09:10 +0200
      Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-08-26 13:20 +0200
    Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2023-08-26 14:20 +0200
      Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2023-08-26 14:30 +0200
      Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-08-27 05:20 +0200
        Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2023-08-27 05:30 +0200
          Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-08-28 04:20 +0200

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