[XeTeX] Table of contents

[José Carlos Santos]

On 30-04-2010 10:22, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>> But I think it is a flaw.
>
> Which proof do you have?

Are you requesting a proof of an opinion? That's rather strange, but I 
will do my best.

Please consider again this file:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252"
\XeTeXdefaultencoding "cp1252"
\mainmatter\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
\chapter{Général de Gaulle}
Il était français.
\end{document}

When the \tableofcontents command is found, the line

\XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252"

was not read yet. Therefore, it seems to me (since XeTeX is 
unicode-based) that the file .toc is in unicode and therefore that 
XeLaTeX should have no problem with it.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos