[XeTeX] Help with UTF8 in XeTeX

[Tobias Schoel]

Explanation of the other replies:

The packages ucs and [utf8x]inputenc are used by LaTeX in order to cope 
with utf8 encoded text. This is needed, because LaTeX uses the 
TeX-Engine, which copes only with ascii.

That was TeX. But you want to use XeTeX:

XeTeX automatically copes with utf8-encoded text, because it's not a 
metapackage like LaTeX but a different engine.

So if you want to use XeTeX, forget about the packages ucs, inputenc and 
fontenc, but instead use the package fontspec.

bye

Toscho

Am 09.01.2011 18:39, schrieb Bogdan Butnaru:
> Hello! I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting something stupid, but I hope
> someone can point me in the right direction. Take this very simple
> document (the source is UTF8 encoded):
>
> *******************
> \documentclass{memoir}
>
> \usepackage{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>
> \begin{document}
> 101 × 101
> \end{document}
> *******************
>
> In case it doesn’t go through, the entire content  is “101 times 101”,
> with the unicode multiplication character  (U+00D7) instead of
> “times”.  This also  happens with other characters I’ve tried, for
> example “é” (lower case e with acute accent). Other non-ASCII
> characters, for example the curly quotes, don’t generate the error
> message, but are NOT displayed in the output PDF.
>
> When I compile it  with xelatex (and lualatex, for that matter), I get
> a “! Package utf8x Error: MalformedUTF-8sequence.” message (whole log
> after my signature).
>
> I spent a few hours unsuccessfully trying to find a problem with the
> ucs and inputenc packages, before noticing that the exact same code
> seems to work perfectly with pdftex: the multiplication symbol is
> displayed without error, as are the “high” curly quotes (lower quotes,
> like "„", generate a “Command \guillemotleft unavailable in encoding
> OT1”, which I assume is caused by the font encoding).
>
> (I would prefer to use XeTeX for its font support: I have a Very Good
> Reason(TM) to make a document with many TTF fonts and I never could
> wrap my brain around pdflatex’s procedure for using TTF fonts.)
>
> -- Bogdan Butnaru
>
>
> $ xelatex test.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>   restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e<2009/09/24>
> Babel<v3.8l>  and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
> yphenation, french, basque, romanian, irish, coptic, serbian, turkish, welsh, e
> speranto, uppersorbian, estonian, indonesian, interlingua, icelandic, kurmanji,
>   slovenian, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/memoir/memoir.cls
> Document Class: memoir 2009/09/21 v1.61803398b configurable book, report, artic
> le document class
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/memoir/mem10.clo)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/memoir/mempatch.sty))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/ucs.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-global.def))
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/utf8x.def)) (./test.aux)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/ucsencs.def)
>
> ! Package utf8x Error: MalformedUTF-8sequence.
>
> See the utf8x package documentation for explanation.
> Type  H<return>   for immediate help.
>   ...
>
> l.7 101 × 1
>              01
>
>
>
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