Re: [MiKTeX] xetex/xelatex crash

[Christian S. <cs...@mi...>]

jr wrote:
> Hi Christian
> 
> Christian Schenk wrote:
>   > Have you updated MiKTeX? (There was a bug fix recently.) Please send a
>> minimal test case.
> 
> I updated to the latest versions yesterday. MiKTeX 2.7 tells me there's 
> no new updates available.
> 
> Anyway, it took some time, but I finally managed to create a minimal 
> test case. Umlauts in a non-unicode file crash XeTeX. If you save the 
> following as ANSI, it will crash. If saved as UTF-8, it won't.


FYI: XeTeX requires Unicode encoded input files. If you feed it with 
"garbage", then anything can happen.