[XeTeX] strange problem when rendering

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Sep 2006, at 1:54 pm, Cyril wrote:

> While rendering some text, I'm getting strange test added to the  
> document.
> (o).fd Text (o).fd comes up when I write \={o}, but only on the  
> first one of the document.
> Where does that come from?

I've never really understood this, but I think updating to the  
current version of fontspec.sty should fix it; this was a problem in  
some earlier releases.

Loading the xunicode package may also serve as a workaround (but I'd  
still recommend updating to the newest packages). If you're using  
traditional LaTeX commands for accents and other non-ASCII  
characters, you should load xunicode anyway in order to handle these  
properly.

> For example here:
> ------------
> %&program=xelatex
> %&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode

By the way (unrelated to the current problem), these lines are an  
obsolete/deprecated form; the current version would be:

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

HTH,

JK