Re: Import unicode in TeX

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Neal Becker schrieb am 29.10.2025 13:28 (GMT +01:00):
> >> Can you give me an example of the text that gets mangled, so I can try
> >> it here?
>
> Since it does not have concrete hints, tex2lyx assumes latin1 encoding
> here.
>
> You have the following possibilities:
>
> * call tex2lyx with the respective option (tex2lyx -e utf8)
> * use a complete tex file and give an encoding specification:
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> ...
>
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> Whether tex2lyx should rather assume utf8 as default nowadays is a
> different question.
>
> The tex2lyx source has this to say about it:
>
>         // Always start with ISO-8859-1, (formerly known by its latex name
>         // latin1), since ISO-8859-1 does not cause an iconv error if the
>         // actual encoding is different (bug 7509).
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
Thanks!  That helps, I prepared a complete .tex file to import,
although the final column of the table did something quite strange

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\begin{document}
% Requires in preamble:

\begin{frame}{Summary at a Glance}
\scriptsize
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.25}

\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{l c c c c c}
\toprule
\textbf{Approach} & \textbf{Coverage} & \textbf{Throughput} & \textbf{MIMO} & \textbf{Complexity} & \textbf{Cost}\\
\midrule
Distributed Small Cells     & ★★☆  & ★★★  & ★★★  & High  & $$$ \\
Passive DAS                 & ★★★  & ★★   & ★     & Low   & $$  \\
Active DAS / RF-over-Fiber  & ★★★  & ★★★  & ★★★  & High  & $$$$\\
Leaky Coax (Radiating)      & ★★★★ & ★    & ★     & Low   & $$  \\
Hybrid (Mixed)              & ★★★  & ★★★  & ★★☆  & Med   & $$$ \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}

\vspace{0.6em}
\footnotesize
\textbf{Legend:} ★–★★★ (more is better); Cost: \$ (lower) to \$\$\$\$ (higher).
\end{frame}
\end{document}