[XeTeX] newbie umlaut problems

[John McChesney-Young]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Michael <zontalmike at hotmail.com> wrote in part:

 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...

It works fine on my Ubuntu 8.10 machine with TeX Live 2008 installed
and Gummi (http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/) as the editor, simply
copying and pasting in the source code from the original inquiry.

John
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