[XeTeX] Writing binary data in \special

2011-08-11 Thread Heiko Oberdiek
Hello, I want to use \special with arbitrary binary data, e.g.: \special{pdf: object @my <>streamXYZäFOOendstream}^1 However 8bit characters are recorded and written in UTF-8. \XeTeXinputencoding bytes is only a very partial solution: * It doesn't work without --etex * "\XeTeXoutputencoding" is

[XeTeX] Trouble with the new Xetex

2011-08-11 Thread Andrew Gollan
I am using the Palatino Linotype font which does not have a native ȳ glyph. I had been entering my ȳ letters as \=y which was working fine until I upgraded to TeXLive2011 (from 2009/2010 depending on machine). Now I get the error message: ** ERROR ** Invalid glyph index (gid 1329) Output file r