Latex Unicode Conversion

[thebioengineer]

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This PR relies on updates from #1995 first, but incorporates updating unicode text into viable latex. There are a number of issues open related to this for currency, symbols, etc. Will link to them later.

[thebioengineer]

Hi Ellis ! Thank you so much for working on this. If you don't mind, could you make sure the 2 PRs are exclusive? to facilitate review..

I see that you added the options latex_header_repeat in both PRs. and the latex() helper in both..

Yeah, I can try, apologies, I had gotten a few commit in and realized I had branched off the other PR and forgot to update it here.

[thebioengineer]

now that #1995 has been merged in, this PR should only reflect the updates to handle unicode. Looking into how to make the oldrel-4 work. Seems to be how it used to handle unicode.

[olivroy]

Overall, I agree with this. I am just surprised this isn't already done by commonmark. Would this fix any existing issue?

[thebioengineer]

I can double check for one, I thought I had seen one about currency not working before, but now I can't find it. I know I had some problems and can open an issue if that helps.

[rich-iannone]

Thanks Ellis, it's in now!