Problems with accents and special characters using xelatex template for CV

Question

I am building my CV using this xeLaTeX template.

When trying to include accents as I usually do in LaTeX, I got wrong symbols like this:

Looking at the template code, it includes the following:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Required for inputting international characters

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Output font encoding for international characters

\usepackage{fontspec} % Required for specification of custom fonts

\setmainfont[Path = ./fonts/,
Extension = .otf,
BoldFont = Erewhon-Bold,
ItalicFont = Erewhon-Italic, 
BoldItalicFont = Erewhon-BoldItalic,
SmallCapsFeatures = {Letters = SmallCaps}
]{Erewhon-Regular}

I also tried to use babel,

\usepackage[spanish, american]{babel}

switching back and forth between American and Spanish with \selectlanguage command. No success.

Any ideas about how to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Don't load inputenc nor fontenc (this one might be needed in special occasions, though) when you compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX and use fontspec.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[spanish,american]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{erewhon}

\begin{document}

This is American English: Alcalá de Henares

\selectlanguage{spanish}

Esto es español: Alcalá de Henares

\end{document}

The declaration \setmainfont{erewhon} might need to be more detailed, depending on whether you installed the font in your system or not. In case it is not installed as a system font, then your declarations are good, but probably it's better to use shortcuts:

\setmainfont[
  Path            = ./fonts/,
  Extension       = .otf,
  UprightFont     = *-Regular,
  BoldFont        = *-Bold,
  ItalicFont      = *-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont  = *-BoldItalic,
]{Erewhon}