On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 01:28, Ross Moore <ross.mo...@mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, and others.
>
>
> There’s actually a pretty easy fix, at least for XeLaTeX.
> The package contains 2 files only: xstring.sty and xstring.tex .
> The .sty is just a 1-liner to load the .tex .
>
> It could be beefed up with:
>
> \RequirePackage{ifxetex} % is this still the best package for
> \ifxetex ?
> \ifxetex
> \XeTeXdefaultencoding "iso-8859-1"
> \input{xstring.tex}
> \XeTeXdefaultencoding "utf8"
> \else
> \input{xstring.tex}
> \fi
>
>
That would sort of work but be a suboptimal fix, it imposes a run-time test
on everyone just to save the file in a legacy encoding when saving the file
as
utf-8 (or as ascii with accents shown as commands) has no run time cost and
places the file in the default text encoding used by almost all current
systems.
David
