XeTeX ⇒ single french quotes (guillemots) look like "bigger than"

[slavoj]

As a disclaimer, I am completely new to XeTeX.

In my text, I am using single french quotes with the commands \frq and \flq. However, those are rendered as "bigger than" (>) and "smaller than" (<) signs, instead of the right guillemot characters. I know this problem in latex, where it is solved by choosing the right font encoding. What is the solution in XeTeX? I have tried various fonts, the problem remains the same.

Best, Slavoj.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Slavoj,

welcome to the board!

Perhaps post a small example, which shows the behavior, which we could test, specifically with your font settings.

Stefan

[slavoj]

Here's a small example. The direct input of the double quotes as unicode characters works fine. The single quotes, using \frq and \flq however don't.

Thanks, Slavoj

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
»utf input« works. 
\frq single quotes\flq\space don't.
\end{document}
 
 
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