Hey,

Quick message to say that the new version of fontspec (v2.1) on GitHub now 
loads xunicode directly, and references to xunicode been removed entirely from 
euenc. If necessary, Khaled can release fontspec & euenc to CTAN while I'm away 
for the next couple of weeks, but otherwise if all is well I'll send it into 
CTAN when I get back.

fontspec loads xunicode even while running on XeLaTeX; this is slightly 
incompatible with previous behaviour but I don't think it would actually cause 
any problems. This will mean that xltxtra is well and truly deprecated (and 
\usepackage{fontspec} is all that is recommended for new XeLaTeX documents); 
I've just sent "realscripts" into CTAN to replicate its "use OpenType 
superscripts in footnotes" for those who want it in LuaLaTeX or 
XeLaTeX-without-xltxtra.

Justification for the changes above: forking xunicode for LuaLaTeX wasn't the 
best idea for maintenance issues, but then a wrapper had to be written around 
xunicode for LuaLaTeX support (i.e., it couldn't be loaded directly). I didn't 
want different behaviour, if possible, in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, so loading 
xunicode inside fontspec seemed to be my only solution.

Please discuss while I'm away, if necessary. Happy to resolve the situation in 
another way if that would be better.

-- Will




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