Unicode characters are marked as errors

[cl445]

Type of JetBrains IDE (IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) and version

Pycharm 2021.1.1 (Professional)

Operating System

MacOS

TeXiFy IDEA version

0.7.6

Minimal example to reproduce the problem

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
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\end{document}

Expected behavior

No error message if Unicode is used.

Actual behavior

I got an error "Unsupported non-ASCII character":

A quickfix suggest including the fontenc package. But this is not necessary or even a disadvantage when writing an English text with foreign names, for example.

[PHPirates]

What LaTeX distribution are you using?

[cl445]

TeX Live 2021

[citywalk2]

I suspect it is file encoding issue.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/encoding.html
Try to set to UTF-8.

[cl445]

Doesn't look like an encoding problem. I double checked it with file -I test.tex. The file is generally encoded in UTF-8 and especially in the IDE. Did you try the example?

[PHPirates]

Pretty sure it's a Mac issue, which is why I can't reproduce it. Can you check if the following build fixes it? You can install it by going to Plugins > Gear icon > Install plugin from disk.
TeXiFy-IDEA-0.7.7-alpha.1.zip
If not, I will resolve it in a different way.

[cl445]

Yes, it worked! But it also stops warn you, if you forgot to include the inputenc package.

[PHPirates]

@cl445 That's great to hear! I think the inputenc package is not actually required since TeX Live 2018, hence no warning. (See e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/370280/98850)

[PHPirates]

Does it, by any chance, also allow you to run your run configuration without having to specify the path to pdflatex explicitly?

[cl445]

Yes, I do not need to specify the path (anymore). Looks like you need a tester for MacOS! If you want, feel free to contact me. If the effort is kept to a limit, I would be happy to help.

[PHPirates]

Great! While poking around in IntelliJ code about environment variables I accidentally came across a rant about how macOS does not allow IntelliJ to access the environment. The issue is as old as #25 (comment) ...

Indeed! The problem is that there's no TeXiFy developer with a Mac, so sometimes we come across an issue we cannot reproduce and then we just give it a shot in the dark and pray it works. We don't have enough donations yet to buy a Mac ;)
Would be awesome, I will ping you next time. Fortunately, it's a rare occurrence so far: https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3AmacOS+is%3Aclosed

Can you check if you can now also use the equation preview? So far this didn't work on Mac (https://github.com/Hannah-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA/wiki/Preview#using-the-preview-on-macos) for I think the same issue. #962

Also #1407 is an issue, does file resolving for class/package files work for you?

[cl445]

@PHPirates Done. But it was not very successful! ;)