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I have experienced problems with the following

  • Polyglossia
  • xelatex
  • fontspec

does not recognize accented letters in french

i'm using Texniccenter as editor of tex with the latest update to my MIKTEX

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{arabic}

\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.2]{Scheherazade}

\newcommand{\setcontext}[2]{\setcounter{chapter}{#1}\setcounter{section}{#2}}
\newcommand{\diff}{\mathop{}\mathopen{}\mathrm{d}}
%\frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true}

\newtheoremstyle{examplestyle}{10mm}{10mm}{\slshape}{2pt}{\bfseries}{}{\newline}{}
\theoremstyle{examplestyle}
\makeatletter

\newcounter{descriptcount}
\newlist{enumdescript}{description}{2}
\setlist[enumdescript,1]{%
  before={\setcounter{descriptcount}{0}%
          \renewcommand*\thedescriptcount{\Roman{descriptcount}}}
  ,font=\bfseries\stepcounter{descriptcount}\thedescriptcount~
}
\setlist[enumdescript,2]{%
  before={\setcounter{descriptcount}{0}%
          \renewcommand*\thedescriptcount{\alph{descriptcount}}}
  ,font=\bfseries\stepcounter{descriptcount}\thedescriptcount~
}

\begin{document}


un âne, la grêle, un traîneau, un symptôme, une mûre
\begin{enumdescript}
   \item [L'accent  aigu]
    \
    \begin{itemize}[font=\color{magenta} , label=\ding{59}]
\item amitié - tenacité - prévenir - médecin;
\end{itemize}
\item [L'accent grave]
\
    \begin{itemize}[font=\color{magenta} , label=\ding{59}]
\item  abcès - enlèvement - exprès - grève
\end{itemize}
\end{enumdescript}
\end{document}

which produces enter image description here

there is no error tex just warning in my techniccenter :

%%
%% This is file `fontspec-patches.sty',
%% generated with the docstrip utility.
%%
%% The original source files were:
%%
%% fontspec.dtx  (with options: `patches')
%% 
%%   _________________________________________
%%   The fontspec package for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
%%   (C) 2004--2014    Will Robertson and Khaled Hosny
%% 
%%   License information appended.
%% 
%% 
\ProvidesPackage{fontspec-patches}
  [2014/06/21 v2.4a Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX]


\ExplSyntaxOn
\cs_set_protected:Npn \@fnsymbol #1
 {
  \int_case:nnF {#1}
   {
    {0} {}
    {1} { \mode_if_math:TF *\textasteriskcentered }
    {2} { \mode_if_math:TF \dagger\textdagger }
    {3} { \mode_if_math:TF \ddagger\textdaggerdbl }
    {4} { \mode_if_math:TF \mathsection\textsection }
    {5} { \mode_if_math:TF \mathparagraph\textparagraph }
    {6} { \mode_if_math:TF \|\textbardbl }
    {7} { \mode_if_math:TF {**}{\textasteriskcentered\textasteriskcentered} }
    {8} { \mode_if_math:TF {\dagger\dagger}{\textdagger\textdagger} }
    {9} { \mode_if_math:TF {\ddagger\ddagger}{\textdaggerdbl\textdaggerdbl} }
   }
   { \@ctrerr }
 }
\DeclareRobustCommand \em
 {
  \@nomath\em
  \str_if_eq_x:nnTF \f@shape \itdefault \eminnershape
  {
    \str_if_eq_x:nnTF \f@shape \sldefault \eminnershape \emshape
  }
 }
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\emph}{\em}
\cs_set_eq:NN \emshape \itshape
\cs_set_eq:NN \eminnershape \upshape
\DeclareRobustCommand{\-}
 {
  \discretionary
   {
    \char\ifnum\hyphenchar\font<\z@
           \xlx@defaulthyphenchar
         \else
           \hyphenchar\font
         \fi
   }{}{}
 }
\def\xlx@defaulthyphenchar{`\-}
\cs_new:Nn \fontspec_visible_space:
 {
  \font_glyph_if_exist:NnTF \font {"2423}
   { \char"2423\scan_stop: }
   { \fontspec_visible_space_fallback: }
 }
\cs_new:Nn \fontspec_visible_space_fallback:
 {
  {
   \usefont{\g_fontspec_encoding_tl}{lmtt}{\f@series}{\f@shape}
   \textvisiblespace
  }
 }
\group_begin:
\char_set_catcode_active:n{"20}%
\cs_gset:Npn\fontspec_print_visible_spaces:{%
\char_set_catcode_active:n{"20}%
\cs_set_eq:NN^^20\fontspec_visible_space:%
}%
\group_end:
\def\verb
 {
  \relax\ifmmode\hbox\else\leavevmode\null\fi
  \bgroup
    \verb@eol@error \let\do\@makeother \dospecials
    \verbatim@font\@noligs
    \@ifstar\__fontspecsverb\@verb
 }
\def\__fontspecsverb{\fontspec_print_visible_spaces:\@sverb}
\AtBeginDocument
 {
  \fontspec_patch_verbatim:
  \fontspec_patch_moreverb:
  \fontspec_patch_fancyvrb:
  \fontspec_patch_listings:
 }
\cs_set:Npn \fontspec_patch_verbatim:
 {
  \@ifpackageloaded{verbatim}
   {
    \cs_set:cpn {verbatim*}
     {
      \group_begin: \@verbatim \fontspec_print_visible_spaces: \verbatim@start
     }
   }
   {
    \cs_set:cpn {verbatim*}
     {
      \@verbatim \fontspec_print_visible_spaces: \@sxverbatim
     }
   }
 }
\cs_set:Npn \fontspec_patch_moreverb:
 {
  \@ifpackageloaded{moreverb}{
    \cs_set:cpn {listingcont*}
     {
      \cs_set:Npn \verbatim@processline
       {
        \thelisting@line \global\advance\listing@line\c_one
        \the\verbatim@line\par
       }
      \@verbatim \fontspec_print_visible_spaces: \verbatim@start
     }
  }{}
 }
\cs_set:Npn \fontspec_patch_fancyvrb:
 {
  \@ifpackageloaded{fancyvrb}
   {
    \cs_set_eq:NN \FancyVerbSpace \fontspec_visible_space:
   }{}
 }
\cs_set:Npn \fontspec_patch_listings:
 {
  \@ifpackageloaded{listings}
   {
    \cs_set_eq:NN \lst@visiblespace \fontspec_visible_space:
   }{}
 }
\RenewDocumentCommand \oldstylenums {m}
 {
  { \addfontfeature{Numbers=OldStyle} #1 }
 }
\NewDocumentCommand \liningnums {m}
 {
  { \addfontfeature{Numbers=Lining} #1 }
 }
%% 
%% Copyright 2004--2014 Will Robertson <[email protected]>
%% Copyright 2009--2013   Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>
%% 
%% Distributable under the LaTeX Project Public License,
%% version 1.3c or higher (your choice). The latest version of
%% this license is at: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
%% 
%% This work is "maintained" by Will Robertson.
%% 
%% This work consists of this file fontspec.dtx
%%           and the derived files fontspec.sty,
%%                                 fontspec.lua,
%%                                 fontspec.cfg,
%%                                 fontspec-xetex.sty,
%%                                 fontspec-luatex.sty,
%%                                 fontspec-patches.sty,
%%                                 fontspec-example.tex,
%%                             and fontspec.pdf.
%% 
%%
%% End of file `fontspec-patches.sty'.

my code works fine i already checked it here https://www.overleaf.com/2280649fdmwpj#/5853636/ the problem is with Texniccenter

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  • If I compile the example, I can see the accented letters.
    – egreg
    Feb 20, 2015 at 18:22
  • 1
    Your text editor is probably not set to UTF8 text encoding. Feb 20, 2015 at 18:22
  • I also see the accented letters with your code (I'm using TeX Live2014). Feb 20, 2015 at 18:23
  • i use techniccenter as editor of tex
    – Educ
    Feb 20, 2015 at 18:23
  • I don't know TeXniccenter. Can it be configured to UTF-8 Unicode text encoding? Feb 20, 2015 at 18:36

1 Answer 1

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This kind of problems generally comes from the fact that the LaTeX editor is not configured to the suitable input encoding. In this peculiar case (a XeLaTeX file, and XeTeX interpreting the input as UTF-8 by default), it means that the editor must be configured to UTF8-Unicode input encoding.

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  • Try this piece of code: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage [french]{babel}
    – domi
    Oct 28, 2017 at 2:17

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