Re: XeTeX encoding problem

[Masamichi HOSODA]

>> Have you ever got the CJK characters to work in a Texinfo file with
>> XeTeX or LuaTeX? If so, maybe we should conditionally load the fonts
>> that you got to work. Can you satisfactorily typeset Japanese text
>> with XeTeX without the use of LaTeX packages? If not, it very likely
>> won't be practical to implement special rules for typesetting Japanese
>> in Texinfo itself.
> 
> Not yet. I want to try it.
> I'm going to use LuaTeX-ja.
> 
> https://osdn.jp/projects/luatex-ja/wiki/FrontPage%28en%29
> 
> It can set Japanese fonts separately from alphabetic font settings.
> It also has special rules for typesetting Japanese.
> It does not require LaTeX.
> 
> On the other hand, in XeTeX, it is difficult.
> However, Japanese characters and fonts can be used by plain XeTeX at least.

I'm trying Japanese Texinfo with XeTeX/LuaTeX native Unicode.
https://github.com/trueroad/texinfo-sample-jp

In my experiment, in both XeTeX and LuaTeX,
Japanese font and Alphabetic font can be separately set.
Even if in XeTeX, typesetting result of Japanese text is acceptable
in my humble opinion.