> Why shouldn't someone be forced to use utf8 encoding if its texts > use only chars from a 8bit codepage? Xetex is quite able to handle > them if you declare the encoding.
Quite, but not entirely. If you use \XeTeXinputencoding to use some other character set, XeTeX will still write to files using UTF-8. You can hardly recommend it. > Also XeTeX has no problems to use Postscript fonts > either. But it doesn't do anything different than pdfTeX does. Arthur -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex