CTAN update: ucs
Date: August 14, 2022 2:26:32 PM CEST
David Carlisle submitted an update to the
ucs
package.
Version: 2.3 2022-08-07
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
Announcement text:
Update to the ucs package and inputenc [utf8x] option New Support address https://github.com/LaTeX-Package-Repositories/ucs/issues This update (By David Carlisle, with permission from the original authors, Dominique Unruh and Wolfgang Jeltsch) makes \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} act like the standard utf8 option, so has no effect in most cases as UTF-8 is the default encoding in recent LaTeX releases. If the ucs package is explicitly loaded, the original utf8x definitions are used, but ucs.sty and utf8x.def have been updated to use e-tex \protected definitions to make them compatible with Unicode support in LaTeX, notably \MakeUppercase in the June 2022 LaTeX
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/ucs The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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Update to the ucs package and inputenc [utf8x] option New Support address https://github.com/LaTeX-Package-Repositories/ucs/issues This update (By David Carlisle, with permission from the original authors, Dominique Unruh and Wolfgang Jeltsch) makes \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} act like the standard utf8 option, so has no effect in most cases as UTF-8 is the default encoding in recent LaTeX releases. If the ucs package is explicitly loaded, the original utf8x definitions are used, but ucs.sty and utf8x.def have been updated to use e-tex \protected definitions to make them compatible with Unicode support in LaTeX, notably \MakeUppercase in the June 2022 LaTeX
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/ucs The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ucs/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
ucs – Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
The bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together with a large number of support files.
The utf8x.def definition file for use with inputenc covers a wider range of Unicode characters than does utf8.def in the LaTeX distribution. The package provides facilities for efficient use of its large sets of Unicode characters.
Glyph production may be controlled by various options, which permits use of non-ASCII characters when coding mathematical formulae.
Note that the bundle previously had an alias “unicode”; that alias has now been withdrawn, and no package of that name now exists.
| Package | ucs |
| Version | 2.4 2023-11-09 |
| Copyright | 2000–2001 Dominique Unruh 2011–2013 Wolfgang Jeltsch 2022 David Carlisle |
| Maintainer | David Carlisle Wolfgang Jeltsch (inactive) Dominique Unruh (inactive) |