[XeTeX] accented characters coming out blank

[jropers@freesurf.fr]

That was it. I switched to a unicode-capable editor (EmEditor) and 
everything went fine.

Thanks for your help.

Jacques.

Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2006, at 10:05 pm, jropers at freesurf.fr wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have installed Xetex under WinXp. I am slowly progressing toward a
>> fully working installation.
>>
>> As of now, although I succeed in choosing fonts (fontspec pkg) , all
>> accented characters (french) come out as 'blanks'.
>>
>> I am obviously doing something wrong... but I can't figure out what.
>>     
>
> How are the accented characters entered in your source text? If  
> you're using the "traditional" TeX conventions of \'{e}, \c{c}, etc.,  
> then you need to load the xunicode package to redefine these so that  
> they access the actual Unicode characters.
>
> And if you're using the actual accented characters in the source,  
> then you should ensure your text is in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding, not  
> an old-style codepage like Windows CP1252, and do *not* use a package  
> like inputenc, as XeTeX handles the Unicode directly.
>
> HTH,
>
> JK
>
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