Description of problem: On a clean Fedora 35 after installing texlive, babel-hebrew, and tex-fonts-hebrew, I can't use pdflatex to render a Hebrew document. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive 9:2021-48.fc35 texlive-babel-hebrew 9:svn30273.2.3h-48.fc35 tex-fonts-hebrew 0.1-35.fc35 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a new Fedora 35 container: podman run -it fedora:35 2. dnf install texlive texlive-babel-hebrew tex-fonts-hebrew 3. Try to render hello.tex document listed below (this is a basic Hebrew document) using pdflatex (pdflatex hello.tex). \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel} \begin{document} שלום! \end{document} Actual results: Blank PDF Expected results: PDF with Hebrew text Additional info: On Fedora 33 this document caused an error, on Fedora 35 something changed and the error no longer appears, but the result is a bad document.
Culmus fonts were moved from /usr/share/fonts/culmus/ to a single directory for each font family, such as /usr/share/fonts/clm-aharoni-fonts/. The spec file for tex-fonts-hebrew package was not updated accordingly, so it fails to create the tex font file, resulting in empty font files, and thus blank hebrew letters. As a workaround, use tex-fonts-hebrew from Fedora 34 or older, which you can download from here: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/tex-fonts-hebrew/0.1/34.fc34/noarch/tex-fonts-hebrew-0.1-34.fc34.noarch.rpm
This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.
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This bug is still relevant for Fedora 39, we just get a slightly different error message. I repeated the steps outlined in the bug report: 1. Start a new Fedora 35 container: podman run -it fedora:39 2. dnf install texlive texlive-babel-hebrew tex-fonts-hebrew 3. Try to render hello.tex document listed above And this time got a new error: ! LaTeX Error: Unicode character ש (U+05E9) not set up for use with LaTeX. Updating version so this won't get closed.
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The package tex-fonts-hebrew is dead as of Fedora 40, so I won't update the version. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tex-fonts-hebrew/c/43394247dae9a3c0b3b98812b92a52f4ea2aedf1
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