Bug#434056: Inputenc and XeTeX don't work together

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi Juliusz,

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:58:54 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> Specifying something like
> 
>   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> 
> should do nothing when input to xelatex (XeTeX already uses UTF-8
> input by default); apparently it does, because it breaks accented
> characters.

I might misunderstand your problem but, as far as I know,
one shouldn't use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} with xelatex.

The author of XeTeX wrote in another ML as follows;

> For xetex, do *not* use \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, because this  
> tries to interpret the individual bytes of UTF-8 characters via TeX  
> macros. But xetex already handles the UTF-8 encoding itself and works  
> with the actual Unicode character values.

Regards,			    2007-7-21(Sat)

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