Merge pull request #1971 from mtreinish/fix-checkmark

Add support for converting checkmark unicode to latex symbol

sphinx/util/texescape.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ tex_replacements = [
     ('±', r'\(\pm\)'),
     ('→', r'\(\rightarrow\)'),
     ('‣', r'\(\rightarrow\)'),
+    ('✓', r'\(\checkmark\)'),
     # used to separate -- in options
     ('', r'{}'),
     # map some special Unicode characters to similar ASCII ones

sphinx/writers/latex.py

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ HEADER = r'''%% Generated by Sphinx.
 %(longtable)s
 \usepackage{sphinx}
 \usepackage{multirow}
+\usepackage{amssymb}
 %(usepackages)s
 %(numfig_format)s
 %(preamble)s