[XeTeX] newbie umlaut problems

[Michael]

Hi all,

I'm just starting out with xetex, and I'm struggling to get out of the 
blocks.  I'm having a problem getting German characters to appear 
correctly in my pdf.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, I started out installing only the TexLive 
packages which sounded relevant, but since then I've installed the 
package "texlive-full", v 2007.dfsg.1-2.

Below, you can see my input file, the output from my command line when 
processing this, and an excerpt from the log file.  I chose Verdana for 
now just because "fc-list" lists it as one of the available fonts:  The 
output looks like the German characters got swallowed along with the 3 
characters after them:

"Here are some German words: sch    f   t, M    sterreich, Spa  "

I'd appreciate any advice.

-Michael


%% START FILE
\title{My book}

\author{Me}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}

\setmainfont{Verdana}

\begin{document}
\section{Section One}

\subsection{ Sunday }
\fontspec{Verdana}
\par Here are some German words: schön, fährt, Müll, Österreich, Spaß.
\end{document}
%% END FILE


====== command line output ==========
tom# xelatex test.tex
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, 
dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, farsi, croatian, ukrainian, russian, bulgarian, 
czech, slov
ak, danish, dutch, finnish, basque, french, german, ngerman, ibycus, 
greek, mon
ogreek, ancientgreek, hungarian, italian, latin, mongolian, norsk, 
icelandic, i
nterlingua, turkish, coptic, romanian, welsh, serbian, slovenian, 
estonian, esp
eranto, uppersorbian, indonesian, polish, portuguese, spanish, catalan, 
galicia
n, swedish, ukenglish, pinyin, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lm/lmodern.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/lm/eu1lmr.fd))
fontspec.cfg loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/etex/etex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fixltx2e.sty)) (./test.aux) [1]
(./test.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on test.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on test.log.
tom#

===== test.log (as it appears in vim) =========
Package fontspec Info: Defining font family for "Verdana" with options 
[] on in
put line 17.
Missing character: There is no <dd72> in font Verdana/ICU!
Missing character: There is no <dea0> in font Verdana/ICU!
Missing character: There is no [39F2] in font Verdana/ICU!
Missing character: There is no [A856] in font Verdana/ICU!
Missing character: There is no [] in font Verdana/ICU!