Re: [Doxygen-users] Latex and UTF-8

[Daniel R. <dr...@ma...>]

Warren Young wrote:

> Daniel Rubin wrote:
>> Paul Floyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Daniel Rubin <dr...@ma...>:
>>>
>>>> It might just be (but I don't know) that it suffices to give TeX
>>>> that `utf8.def' file, by getting it from some CTAN server and
>>>> putting it in your personal `texmf' directory.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this was helpful in some way, have fun
>>> Yes, thanks. I downloaded utf8.def, and LaTeX is happy now.
> 
> I'm having this same problem: Doxygen fails to generate a PDF via latex 
> on recent versions of RHEL and Doxygen.
> 
> I can't seem to get this fix working.  I downloaded utf8.def from CTAN, 
> but pdflatex still complains that it can't find the file.  I think it's 
> because I'm not installing it in the right place.  I've tried ~/texmf 
> and /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base.  When it gives the error, it 
> prompts for a path to the file, and if I type that in, the PDF creation 
> succeeds.
> 
> Where does pdflatex expect to find this file?

TeX & Co. use a special technique to quickly find their files: 
File name lookup information is kept in hash-databases (so-called 
"ls-R databases").  Try

   info kpathsea

if you'd like to learn a little more.

If you kept the copy of `utf8.def' in your `~/texmf' tree, it 
should be as simple as issuing the command

   texhash

or, if this cannot be found, the following less easy-to-remember one:

   mktexlsr

Afterwards, TeX (and thus pdflatex) should be able to find the 
file.  You might check with:

   kpsewhich utf8.def

But it surprises me no little that this file isn't there on a 
recent RHEL system.  Are you sure you've got all tetex-packages 
installed?  On my ancient FC4 system the file `utf8.def' is in 
`tetex-latex'.  Maybe the system's ls-R database got corrupted 
somehow? Can you `locate utf8.def'?

Have fun
----Daniel