On 30/04/2014 12:42, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > If a user is able to write code such as above, then he would not > really need a warning/error of inputenc at all. > > But I think it is not the issue here. The typical use case would be > that the use comes from traditional LaTeX, e.g.: > > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}% without fontenc > > or > > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage{textcomp} yes agreed although rather than inputenc try to guess that the font encoding isn't going to work it would probably be better if fontenc warned if it was on xe/latex with utf8 input encoding that it can't load unicode fonts. because on xelatex you'd get exactly the same problems if you did %\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} and changing the messages in inputenc would not help that:-) I just changed inputenc (again) in svn to give different messages in the ascii and utf8 cases (still letting (x-)ascii and utf8(x) through with just a warning). David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________