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As soon as I use fontspec in my biblatex xelatex document, my quotes stop appearing as proper quotes ", and start appearing as a pair of `` and ''.

My minimal working example, first:

\documentclass{book}
\listfiles
\usepackage[stretch=10]{microtype}
\usepackage[quiet]{fontspec}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\addbibresource{./bibliography/references.bib}


\begin{document}
Hello world [\cite{Bonaini_Memoria}]

\printbibliography
\end{document

Everything looks good here: enter image description here

then I add setmainfont:

\documentclass{book}
\listfiles
\usepackage[stretch=10]{microtype}
\usepackage[quiet]{fontspec}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\addbibresource{./bibliography/references.bib}


\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{document}
Hello world [\cite{Bonaini_Memoria}]

\printbibliography
\end{document}

and the thing breaks:

enter image description here

For completeness here is my bibliography biblatex entry:

@Article{Bonaini_Memoria,
  author="Bonaini, F.",
  title={Memoria unica sincrona di Leonardo Fibonacci novamente scoperta.},
  journaltitle="Giornale Storico degli Archivi Toscani.",
  date=1857,
  volume="Vol. I.",
  pages={239--246},
  language={italian}

This seems a mystery to me! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: What is weird, is if I take out the setmainfont directive, and instead usepackage{libertineotf} everything works great. :?

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1 Answers1

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Putting \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O} should be useful for this case.

Please see this post by Alan Munn on fonts. That question and answer both by Alan is excellent for font management.

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  • Did I put the right link? – percusse Mar 09 '12 at 02:13
  • @percusse Thanks a lot. That is it. and what a post it is. –  Mar 09 '12 at 02:15
  • In his answer Alan uses [Ligatures=TeX]. What is the advantage of using [Mapping=tex-text] or vise versa? – Andriy Drozdyuk Mar 09 '12 at 02:29
  • In fact Ligatures should be used instead, as per fontspec manual: but for consistency Ligatures=TeX will perform the same function as Mapping=tex-text. – Andriy Drozdyuk Mar 09 '12 at 02:31
  • [Mapping=tex-text] I believe was an old way of indicating that fontspec should replicate the typical ligature behavior of Latex. It is now the way that tells XeTeX to use these ligatures whereas Ligatures=TeX is for LuaTeX. Fontspec will work with Ligature=TeX when using XeTeX; I do not think th reverse is true. – Amphipolis Mar 09 '12 at 19:51
  • Although this works, it feels like a workaroud and not a real solution. Is there a way to have biblatex/biber output unicode quotes, instead of TeX ligatures? – Ruud Nov 30 '13 at 21:24
  • @RuudvA No this is the solution. I am afraid no other possibilities. Actually this is not a workaround. –  Nov 30 '13 at 22:20