<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello list.</div><div><br></div><div>I use ubuntu linux precise. Special characters such as smart quotes or "--" are not typeset as expected. I downloaded and installed the texlive 2011 distribution in the hope that it would solve the problem. However, the problem remains. From suggestions I found on the Internet, a minimal example demonstrating the problem is the following:</div><div><br></div><div>\documentclass[twoside,a4paper, 12pt]{article}<br>\usepackage{fontspec}<br>\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}<br>\newfontfamily\greekfont[Script=Greek]{Times New Roman}<br>\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}<br>\usepackage{polyglossia}<br>\setdefaultlanguage{greek}<br>\setotherlanguage{english}<br>\begin{document}<br>Outside ``english'' environment --<br><br>\begin{english}<br>``Quotes'' -- inside english
environment <br>\end{english}<br><br>\begin{greek}<br> ``Ελληνικό'' -- περιβάλλον<br>\end{greek}<br><br>``Ελληνικά''<br>\end{document}<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have attached the resulting pdf file and the original tex example. Experiments with other fonts (DejaVu Sans) made no difference.<br><br></div></div></body></html>