0

When I use pdflatex to convert a file having unicode math symbols, it complains about that it is not found. How should I handle that? It seems to offer me a way to insert the character to a system file... and I'm unsure if that's the right thing to do. 

! Package ucs Error: Unknown Unicode character 8289 = U+2061,
(ucs)                possibly declared in uni-32.def.

l.1802 \[𝑍(𝑠,𝑓)=\exp⁑
                                (βˆ’π‘Ÿ(𝑠,𝑓)(π‘“βˆ’π‘ ))=\frac{𝑍...
Improve this question
3
  • 3
    please always post a small complete document that reproduces the problem, that is not the message from the standard latex unicode support so (for some reason?) you have loaded a variant from ucs package, but either way the standard \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2061}{} will define the character to do nothing, which is what you need here (it is invisible function application marker)
    – David Carlisle
    Dec 11, 2018 at 8:03
  • @DavidCarlisle as the OP is presumably using utf8x, the correct syntax is \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{"2061}{} or \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{8289}{} using the decimal code point which is given in the ucs error message.
    – user4686
    Dec 11, 2018 at 13:05
  • This post might help: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/464393/…
    – mhdella
    Dec 11, 2018 at 21:47

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
2

You are using \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}, in all probability, and following the error message you can fix that this way:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{"2061}{}% use TeX input syntax for numbers, here hexadecimal (works only with utf8x)
\begin{document}
\[𝑍(𝑠,𝑓)=\exp⁑(βˆ’π‘Ÿ(𝑠,𝑓)(π‘“βˆ’π‘ ))=\]
\end{document}

enter image description here

As per uni-32.def it is found in TeXLive 2018 at /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-32.def it is a support file for ucs package. When using utf8x option to inputenc you trigger ucs (partial) usage. But it contains no definition for Unicode code point U+2061.

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .