[OS X TeX] XeTeX and unicode characters

[Peter Pagin]

Thanks again, Jonathan and Herb,
indeed I was using CM. I had copied in only the two first lines from 
Herb's original suggestion since I didn't think the problem had anything 
to do with choice of font. There is much to learn. I'll try it with 
another font later today.

Best,
Peter

Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> What font(s) are you using, then? I'm guessing that perhaps your 
> document is still using the CM fonts; that won't work for real Unicode 
> text in XeTeX, because those fonts do not support extended-Latin 
> Unicode characters.
>
> (LaTeX with "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}" deals with them by mapping 
> the UTF-8 byte sequences to LaTeX control sequences that construct 
> accented characters, etc., from the individual glyphs in the CM fonts. 
> Which works fine, but is specific to those particular fonts, which use 
> their own unique encoding schemes, not Unicode.)
>
> To use Unicode text with XeTeX, you should also select a 
> Unicode-compliant font that supports the ranges of Unicode characters 
> that you're interested in using. For the accented letters used in 
> common European languages, any of the standard OS X fonts should be fine.
>
> Jonathan
>
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