Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Japanese and Russian Characters in the same Document

[pefra]

Hello,

I have a question that I did not find answered anywhere. I'm writing a document in English. However, I need to use a few words of both Japanese and Russian. In principle, it seems to work, but as soon as I used Japanese characters, I cannot use Russian characters afterwards. Here are two minimal examples to illustrate my problem.

This one works.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJK}

\begin{document}
  {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф}
  \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
  ル
  \end{CJK}
\end{document}

But this doesn't

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJK}

\begin{document}
  {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф}
  \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
  ル
  \end{CJK}
  {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф}
\end{document}

I cannot figure out why. In the second case, I get this error message

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! Undefined control sequence.
\CJK@XX ...r `#1\endcsname {`#2}\CJK@ignorespaces 
                                                  \fi 
l.12   {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф
                                        }

I cannot find any explanation and I would really appreciate any help.


Best regards and thanks in advance,
Pete

[cgnieder]

Hi Pete, welcome to the LaTeX community!

I've never used CJK before so I don't no if this is a bug or if there is a recommended way, but if you call either \CJKnospace or \CJKspace then \CJK@ignorespaces is defined and the error is gone. The first one defines it to be \ignorespaces the second one to \@empty.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJK}
\CJKnospace
\begin{document}
  {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф}
  \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
  ル
  \end{CJK}
  {\fontencoding{T2A}\selectfont ф}
\end{document}

Regards

[pefra]

@cgnieder: Thank you very much!

I found an alternative solution that resets the input encoding here:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... e-document

I am also not sure, but to me, this seems like a bug.

Best,

Pete

[cgnieder]

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118704/japanese-and-russian-characters-in-the-same-document

Thanks for that link. I'm sure you've simply forgotten it before

A crossposting is always contra-productive. But there is nothing really against it as long as it is mentioned. This means that a direct link has to be added. So other users who want to help are preserved from double efforts and waste of time.

Regards

[pefra]

@cgnieder: I am really sorry. I was probably too impatient and posted at tex.stackexchange.com when I got no reply here. I should have mentioned it then, and also I should have waited longer.

Once again, thank you very much and pardon my bad behaviour.

Pete