[XeTeX] Error with XeTeX on using with moderncv

[Jonathan Kew]

On 8 Jan 2009, at 09:57, Alan Jones wrote:

> HI:
>
> I am trying to use XeLaTeX with moderncv class for writing my
> Cirrculum Vitae with a different font. I get this error.
>
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/lm/eu1lmss.fd))
>
> Package hyperref Warning: Option `baseurl' has already been used,
> (hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input  
> line 50.
>
>
> Package hyperref Warning: Option `pdfpagemode' has already been used,
> (hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input  
> line 50.
>
>
> Package hyperref Warning: Option `pdfstartview' has already been used,
> (hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input  
> line 50.
>
>
> Package hyperref Warning: Option `pdfstartpage' has already been used,
> (hyperref)                setting the option has no effect on input  
> line 50.
>
> ! Argument of \UTFviii at three@octets has an extra }.
> <inserted text>
>                \par
> l.50 \begin{document}
>
> ? Runaway argument?
> ! Paragraph ended before \UTFviii at three@octets was complete.
> <to be read again>
>                   \par
> l.50 \begin{document}

 From the macro name there, it looks like something is trying to do  
UTF8 decoding in TeX macros, which is not valid as xetex interprets  
the UTF8 bytes into Unicode values itself. Does moderncv perhaps do  
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, or some other encoding-related magic?

JK