[XeTeX] Accented gliphs

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Thu, 15 May 2008 12:59:38 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> But the next question raised usually turns out to be, why doesn't
>    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> work as expected. And those old hacks are never going to work in Xe(La)TeX.
> 
> Convincing maintainers of fontenc and inputenc to fix the packages to
> work with XeTeX (in the sense that they would simply be ignored in
> XeTeX)

While it is ok if inputenc is ignored in XeTeX, disabling fontenc is
absolutely not a good idea. E.g. it will break all the chess fonts. 

Also there is no real problem in using T1-encoding (or other encodings)
together with XeTeX as long as you don't use non-ASCII-input which will
break in a lot of cases -- not because of some deficiency of fontenc but
because of the missing inputenc-step.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
ß \ss

ÿ \"y
\end{document}


-- 
Ulrike Fischer