[Tex/LaTex] encoding problem with \verbatiminput : Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX

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I'm trying to import some logs files using \verbatiminput to do a automatic report from our logs. I got some encoding problem.

My objective: import some logs files with various special char (included hidden one) as verbatim.

  • I believed the file to be in ISO-8859-1. (the server OS is windows)
  • I got a LOT of file. So the usual solution "rewrite it"/"look for the faulty char" is not an option.
  • I run pdflatex from a mac osx.
  • I converted the files with (notice the -c option to drop faulty char)

.

for file in ./test*/*.txt
do
  iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t utf8 $file  > $file.n1
  mv -f $file.n1 $file 
done

My tex header:

\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

error message I got :

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:° not set up for use with LaTeX.

To solve the "degree" problem, I added 

cat $file.n1 | tr '°' 'º' > $file.n2

then I got an other error on an other file, this time with an invisible char.

! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.

I first tried to not convert the file and import them as T1/latin1 or LY1/ascinew, but I got the error

! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined
(inputenc)                in inputencoding `latin1'.

on different files.

My question:

  • Is there a way to ignore/replace ALL the faulty char?
  • from LaTeX ? from the shell ?
  • using "tr" or "iconv" ?
  • Am I doing something wrong when importing the files / doing the conversion?
  • with which encoding will I have less problem ?

any help is welcome, as I am blocked on this since two days.

PS: My problem is not with the degree symbole in particular, but with unicode char that LaTeX cannot printout.

Best Answer

Yes you can replace the faulty char. You could replace ° with \ensuremath{^\circ}

or add to your latex header:

\newcommand{\degree}{\ensuremath{^\circ}}
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{B0}{\degree}

Or you could use xelatex then there is no need for \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} because it has full utf8 support build in.

The encoding is all right Latex just doesn't know what to do with the unicode symbol :D

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