XeTeX ⇒ ASCII input (æ, ö)

[jpeyton]

When I use XeTeX, I noticed that non-ASCII Unicode is allowed to be input directly (for example, dashes, curly quotes, and even Greek or Chinese). However, simple ASCII symbols (such as æ and ö) need to be input with the TeX escape codes (\ae, \"o).

I find this unwieldy. Is there some way around this, so that I can type the ASCII directly?

[phi]

Neither æ nor ö are ASCII characters. And every Unicode character works in documents compiled by XeTeX as long as the font supports it. So there has to be an error in your document. The following minimal example works fine:

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\documentclass{minimal}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}

\begin{document}

æ ö

\end{document}

[jpeyton]

The ASCII codes are 230 (æ) and 246 (ö).

I think my problem may have been due to specifically marking the character encoding UTF8x in the preamble, something I have since taken out.

Thanks!

[phi]

The ASCII codes are 230 (æ) and 246 (ö).

ASCII includes no more than 128 characters.

I think my problem may have been due to specifically marking the character encoding UTF8x in the preamble, something I have since taken out.

That's correct, you cannot use the inputenc package in combination with XeTeX.