[XeTeX] Table of contents

[José Carlos Santos]

On 30-04-2010 11:42, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>> When the \tableofcontents command is found, the line
>>
>> \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252"
>>
>> was not read yet.
>
> Which is your proof?
>
> The command \XeTeXinputencoding resets the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 input
> encoding to something else, restricted, awkward, whatever. It allows
> XeTeX to translate the limited characters to sensible Unicode (BTW, MS
> Windows has knowledge of Unicode since more the ten years, no need to
> present oneself as a guy from last millennium). This internal
> representation is used by the TeX core. If you want to keep a
> non-Unicode representation of particular characters, then use the LICR
> (LaTeX internal character representation) form directly: \´e or {\´e}.
> This also works in \hypersetup...

I have participated in discussions both on newsgroups and on mailing 
lists for ten years and I don't remember having ever been so attacked as 
now. And all because I wanted to use a certain encoding instead of 
another one! Besides, this has nothing to do with what I wish or do not 
wish to do, since I am trying to compile a multi-chapter document in 
which each of the 15 chapters was written by a different person; it is 
not as if I am writing something myself from scratch.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos