[XeTeX] Texlive 2007 problem - Fontshape undefined

[Jonathan Kew]

On 18 Apr 2007, at 6:51 am, Cyril Niklaus wrote:

>
> On 18 avr. 07, at 13:54, Carlo Strub wrote:
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>>
>> \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U} has to be put before (!) the
>> fontspec preamble commands.
>
> why do you need that? Unicode is the default and the whole point of
> XeTeX, so I fail to understand the use of it. Certainly in my limited
> use of it, I've never had to actually declare the encoding to be
> unicode.

I suspect this is a leftover from much earlier versions of fontspec  
etc; the encoding name it uses by default is now "EU1", and you  
shouldn't have to declare it in your document at all.

If you load fontspec, do \setmainfont etc, and *then* change  
\encodingdefault, I can imagine this would lead to the problem you  
described.

JK