Re: [MiKTeX] xetex/xelatex crash

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

Christian Schenk wrote:
> jr wrote:
>> 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.

Forgot to mention the \XeTeXinputencoding primitive:
\XeTeXinputencoding bytes
This will tell XeTeX that your input is platform-specific. I guess, this 
has other side effects.