[OS X TeX] XeTeX

[Ross Moore]

Hello Ralph,

On 30/04/2004, at 10:21 AM, Ralph Martin wrote:

> Maybe I am missing something, but I can't seem to get XeteX to work 
> with TeXShop and Unicode in what I think is the obvious way:
>
> Set Texshop's text encoding to UTF-8

This sets the default encoding ...

>
> If I now open the XeTeX 0.5 Sample "test.ltx", the unicode characters 
> in the source do not appear as expected, but as character pairs. 
> Presumably this is because they are in 16 bit Unicode?

  ... but if you open from the "File:>Open ..."  menu,
make sure the encoding popup is also set to  UTF-8 Unicode .
(You can open individual files with encodings different from default.)


>
> So, how can things be set up so that I can type unicode in the source, 
> and see it as expected there, as well as in the output?

It should just work, once the encoding is correct.


	Ross

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