[XeTeX] accented input

[Valentino Volonghi]

On 2/10/07, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> Does it help if you comment out the line
>
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>
> inputenc should not be used together with XeLaTeX: XeLaTeX expects
> native UTF-8 (actually even UTF-16) input, while the package inputenc
> (with option utf8) precisely converts UTF-8 "characters" into 8-bit
> equivalents for processing by standard LateX (like pdfLaTeX). (I'm
> not sure what the "x" in utf8x means.)

Indeed it works! Thanks a LOT.

> For this to work, you also need to make sure your text editor
> (TextMate) is using UTF-8 encoding.

Yep, it supports both UTF-8 and UTF-16 LE/HE.

> By the way, pdfsync won't work with XeTeX (it expects pdfTeX).

Yes I know it doesn't work. But PDFView.app doesn't care if pdfsync is
there or not and
does the same job with both xetex and LaTeX with TextMate, I just
forgot to remove that
line from my basic templates.

Thanks again for your most precious help!.

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