[XeTeX] Trouble with ``''

[christopher ciotti]

On Oct 5, 2004, at 7:11 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>> 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.
>

Many thanks!  There are some subtle yet important differences between 
xelatex and pdflatex as I'm finding out.  Should this information about 
quoting (and other such things) be in an FAQ somewhere?


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