[XeTeX] Error with XeTeX on using with moderncv

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:16:54 -0500 schrieb Fr. Michael Gilmary:

>> 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

>  From the moderncv.cls we find:
> 
>> % fontenc package
>> \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}

inputenc shouldn't be used with xelatex, but fontenc is harmless.
You can load it as often as you want with all options you like
(fontspec is loading it too). You should only load fontspec (or
xltxtra) after any call to fontenc so that the active text encoding
is EU1. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer