Error while printing chinese character

Question

I am printing a document with Chinese and getting some errors. Below is a MWE with the character causing problems.

\documentclass[11pt,table,a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn}
 塞
\end{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn}
\end{document}

This is the error message:

Error:
! Font C70/gbsn/m/n/10.95/f9=gbsnuf9 at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
 not found.
<to be read again> 
                   relax

How can I fix this problem?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

For Chinese, you can read this first:

How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?

The CJK symbol 塞(U+F96C) you want to typeset is “CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH”. It is rarely used for Chinese or Japanese documents, but for Korean. So most Chinese fonts (including gbsn installed on TeX distributions) do not have this symbol.

I don't know what you want actually. If you just want to typeset 塞(U+585E), it is OK to use:

% pdflatex or latex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn}
塞 for Chinese
\end{CJK*}
\end{document}

But if you really need 塞(U+F96C) for Korean, you have to use a proper font for this symbol. Say, use a Korean font

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{mj}
塞 for Korean
\end{CJK*}
\end{document}

You can also use XeLaTeX and a font from your OS. On Windows, for example,

% xelatex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{Batang}
\begin{document}
塞 VS. 塞
\end{document}

BTW, this might be helpful if you need to typeset rare symbols:

high and low CJK codepoints in a single XeLaTeX document

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '13 at 10:12

1

If you just want to create Chinese pdf, perhaps you can try the package xeCJK. I suggest the following article for you:

http://leavedcorn.pixnet.net/blog/post/24773932-%E6%96%B0%E6%89%8B%E5%AE%89%E8%A3%9Dlatex%E6%87%B6%E4%BA%BA%E6%95%99%E5%AD%B8(step-by-step)

answered May 07 '13 at 10:12

ericc

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3

In order to make this a more complete answer (right now it’s more of a comment), could you show how th OP’s character would be produced in a xeCJK minimal? – doncherry May 07 '13 at 14:00
1

Can u use xeCJK with pdflatex. I m using pdflatex so i don't want to use xetex. – manish May 08 '13 at 02:15
@user15662: You can't use xeCJK with pdflatex. – Leo Liu May 09 '13 at 07:51

Error while printing chinese character

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