[XeTeX] [XeLaTeX-MikTeX 2.7] compilation error with french characters

[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 May 2008, at 11:23 pm, Alain PIERRE wrote:

>> No, that's not what François means. After manually adding new files
>> in the MikTeX texmf tree, you need to go to the MikTex Options  
>> (Start|
>> All Programs|MikTex 2.7|Settings), select the General tab, then click
>> "Refresh FNDB". (Or whatever the French equivalent is.)
>
> Ahaa, I see. I begin to understand how this thing works. Thanks for
> your patience. ;O)
>
> There's something I don't understand though... the log keeps
> mentioning loading babel. See the provided attachments.

This is a built-in part of the (xe)latex format; it doesn't mean the  
same thing as actually having

   \usepackage[...]{babel}

in your document, though. It's not a sign that anything is wrong.

(Perhaps in some future version, we'll have a xelatex format where  
Babel has been entirely replaced at the format-compilation stage. But  
we're not there yet.)

JK