[XeTeX] problems with fontspec and german sharp s ligature
François Charette
firmicus at ankabut.net
Wed Apr 9 10:18:13 CEST 2008
Niels Provos a écrit :
>> Maybe the following would be even better, since François created a
>> replacement of Babel, Polyglossia which especially meant for XeTeX:
>>
>
> I tried Polyglossia, but unfortunately, it no longer recognizes my umlauts:
>
> "a is converted into ''a instead of ä
>
> etc. However, babel seems to work fine, even if some of the
> hyphenations look incorrect.
>
Polyglossia indeed assumes that the input strings are UTF-8. It does not
support shorthands.
This is a feature ;-)
There are many convenient input methods out there. Some editors can be
customized to automatically substitute "s to ß, for instance.
François
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