[XeTeX] Trouble with ``''

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Oct 2004, at 11:57 am, christopher ciotti wrote:

> On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:31 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
>>
>
>> Unfortunately the familiar TeX ligatures are properties of the font 
>> itself. This may change in the future, but for now you need to enter 
>> the characters manually or with a find/replace script. ( OPT-[ and 
>> OPT-SHIFT-[ for “ and ” respectively )
>>
>> Note that Hoefler Text will try and do the right thing if you just 
>> use the plain quote characters instead, but that won't work in some 
>> circumstances.
>>
>> Will
>
> Hi Will -
>
> Thanks for the info but still not working here.  Actually, it doesn't 
> seem to matter if I use Hoefler Text or the default CM, I lose the 'T' 
> in This in the resulting document.

If you're losing the 'T' after an opening quote (“), this suggests to 
me that you aren't saving your document as Unicode (UTF-8). You're 
probably saving it using MacRoman encoding, where “ is a single byte, 
but XeTeX reads it as UTF-8 and this byte value is then seen as the 
first byte of a two-byte sequence representing a single Unicode 
character.

You can set the encoding in TeXShop's Preferences dialog.

HTH,

Jonathan