On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:36:08PM -0500, Kevin Russell wrote: > > I often use the Unicode characters for IPA superscript diacritics > (like aspiration [ʰ], palatalization [ʲ], velarization [ʷ]) in the > source of my XeLaTeX documents. > > While the symbols *look* fine in the resulting PDF, they're no > longer the correct Unicode characters. For example, apiration [ʰ] > is no longer u02B0, but a regular "h" (u0068) printed in > superscript. This makes it impossible to copy and paste > transcriptions from the PDF and still have them be correct > transcriptions. More problematically for me right now, it feeds > incorrect text to the screenreading software of our blind students. > > Where along the chain are these characters getting changed and how > do I get it to stop? > > It happens with the xelatex in both MacTeX2008 and MacTeX2010. It > happens whether the PDF is viewed with Adobe Reader 9, Adobe Acrobat > CS4 (both for Mac), or with the Mac Preview application. It happens > with every Unicode font I've used (Gentium, DejuVu, Linux > Libertine). > > Thanks for any advice.
A small working example would definately help tracking this. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
