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I'm writing a program in Java which generates a PDF for something using LaTeX. In this PDF I have to include arbitrary Unicode Characters which I get from a File.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % or \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} for mor characters
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\begin{document}

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le\#bla\%dd\@\euro{}i9pi\{\_\}d    dsa ddd4(ozfertig

\char"2200

\end{document}

This provides me with a lot of UTF-8-Characters but not all. In the example above the line with \char"2200 doesn't work everything else does. If I could find a Font which includes every UTF-8-Symbol (even if its just mapped to a ?) this should work. Is there such a font?

If not, is there a document which lists the range of defined Symbols with the packages I am using, such that I can replace the rest with some defined character?

I cannot use XeTeX or LuaTeX, I'm stuck with pdfLaTeX.

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    You simply can't use \char"2200 with pdflatex.
    – egreg
    Jun 3, 2013 at 15:13
  • Is the reason you can't use XeTeX or LuaTeX insurmountable? Because that seems to be the only way to do what you want to do.
    – Alan Munn
    Jun 3, 2013 at 15:17
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2 Answers 2

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You mean Unicode characters rather than UTF-8 characters. Unicode code points are in the range hex 0-10FFFF and pdflatex fonts are restricted to hex 0-FF so you would need thousands of fonts to cover the full Unicode range and a TeX macro definition for each character (or range of characters that can be mapped as a block).

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This is something like a hack. If a Unicode symbol definition has been loaded with encodings package such as textcomp or options to fontenc, with \UnicodeChar{abcd} you can access to it, or ? will be printed.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\makeatletter
\begingroup
  \def\DeclareUnicodeChar#1#2{\global\@namedef{UC@#1}{#2}}
  \def\cdp@elt#1#2#3#4{%
     \lowercase{\InputIfFileExists{#1enc.dfu}{}{}}%
  }\cdp@list
\endgroup
\def\UnicodeChar#1{\@ifundefined{UC@#1}{?}{\@nameuse{UC@#1}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

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le\#bla\%dd\@\euro{}i9pi\{\_\}d    dsa ddd4(ozfertig

\UnicodeChar{2200}

\end{document}

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