jgm/pandoc — Issue #421: Plain TeX commands special Characters don't work with XeTeX
Author: xi
Created: 2012-02-17 09:45:35+00:00
State: open

TeX can not handle unicode characters, so there are commands to enter those characters,
for example `"foo"` would be written as

```
``foo''
```

I do not have a full list of those special characters.
Pandoc does this conversion.

XeTeX can handle unicode characters, so it does not need those commands.
What is more, it does not define those commands at all.
So there must not be a conversion.

At the moment pandoc lets LaTeX use XeTeX if available.
So one option is to create different LaTeX sources for TeX and XeTeX.
The other option is to use commands for special characters
that will work with both TeX and XeTeX.

See [XeTeX FAQ](http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=xetex_faq#accents) for more information.