[XeTeX] charlint?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> I guess this isn't really the place for this query, but perhaps someone has had
> a similar problem.
> 
> I'm using XeTeX and TeXWorks for academic work, like many of us.  I cut-n-past
> bibliographical information from sites like copac.ac.uk and worldcat.org, into
> JabRef for use in my documents.  What I'm finding, though, is that several of
> these big online bibliographical databases have their records in un-normalized
> Unicode.  And it doesn't print nicely with XeTeX. 
> 
> Rather than struggel with XeTeX's accent placement, which seems to be an
> unattractively per-font problem in any case, it makes better sense to me to
> normalize the Unicode to NFC form.  I.e., http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
> Appendix:Unicode_normalization

\XeTeXinputnormalization=1 should normalise to NFC (2 normalises NFD).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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