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I am having trouble with vertical (i.e. rotated) Chinese text that contains characters in two different fonts. Rare characters requiring the "CJK fallback family font" are not displaying in the typeset output, although the font (PMingLiU-ExtB) is correctly installed and these characters do display in other applications, and even in LaTeX with the xeCJK package but without character-rotation. I've tried another font containing one of the characters in question, with the same result.

Here is a MWE, incorporating code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/38585/3935 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/16087/3935:

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xeCJK}
\newfontlanguage{Chinese}{CHN}
\setCJKmainfont[Script=CJK,Language=Chinese,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{SimSun}
\setCJKfallbackfamilyfont{rm}{PMingLiU-ExtB}

\newcommand*\CJKmovesymbol[1]{\raise.35em\hbox{#1}}
\newcommand*\CJKmove{\punctstyle{plain}% do not modify the spacing between punctuations
  \let\CJKsymbol\CJKmovesymbol
  \let\CJKpunctsymbol\CJKsymbol}

\usepackage{everypage}
\AddEverypageHook{\CJKmove\special{pdf: put @thispage <</Rotate 90>>}}

\begin{document}
　　秋夜思

旅夢何時盡、征途望每賖、晩秋淮上水、新月楚人家

嘯空山近、鴻飛極浦斜、明朝南岸去、言折桂枝花
\end{document}

The character that produces the problem is (U+24814), the first character in the third "paragraph" of the text.

I am using 

revision:    28816
cat-version: 3.1.2

of xeCJK on OS 10.6.8 and 10.8.3; my LaTeX client is TeXShop v. 2.47.

If I change

\usepackage{xeCJK}

to 

\usepackage[fallback]{xeCJK}[2011/05/01] % ver 2.3.19

following https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/16087/3935, the character in question displays correctly but the text is no longer rotated. Is there a way to get both effects simultaneously?

Added, 20130426:

Using 

\usepackage[AutoFallBack=true]{xeCJK}
\newfontlanguage{Chinese}{CHN}
\setCJKmainfont[Script=CJK,Language=Chinese,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{SimSun}
\setCJKfallbackfamilyfont{rm}[Script=CJK,Language=Chinese,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{MingLiU-ExtB}

as in @Leo Liu's answer produces overstriking of the graphs and 嘯:

enter image description here

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1 Answers1

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Newer xeCJK disables fallback fonts by default to improve the performence. So you should enable it manually.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[AutoFallBack=true]{xeCJK}
\newfontlanguage{Chinese}{CHN}
\setCJKmainfont[Script=CJK,Language=Chinese,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{SimSun}
\setCJKfallbackfamilyfont{rm}[Script=CJK,Language=Chinese,Vertical=RotatedGlyphs]{PMingLiU-ExtB}

\newcommand*\CJKmovesymbol[1]{\raise.35em\hbox{#1}}
\newcommand*\CJKmove{\punctstyle{plain}% do not modify the spacing between punctuations
  \let\CJKsymbol\CJKmovesymbol
  \let\CJKpunctsymbol\CJKsymbol}

\usepackage{everypage}
\AddEverypageHook{\CJKmove\special{pdf: put @thispage <</Rotate 90>>}}

\begin{document}
　　秋夜思

旅夢何時盡、征途望每賖、晩秋淮上水、新月楚人家

嘯空山近、鴻飛極浦斜、明朝南岸去、言折桂枝花
\end{document}

enter image description here

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  • However, this does not produce the desired effect — the characters and 嘯 are overstruck, one on top of the other. I am appending a graphic to the original post. – brannerchinese Apr 26 '13 at 10:00
  • @brannerchinese: It works fine on my computer. – Leo Liu Apr 26 '13 at 14:27
  • @brannerchinese: I guess you use a bad PMingLiU-ExtB font. You can try another font like SimSun-ExtB, HanaMin (花園明朝), etc. – Leo Liu Apr 26 '13 at 14:33
  • Yes, SimSun-ExtB works. I'm not sure what was wrong with PMingLiU-ExtB, but anyway I've got something that works now. Thanks. – brannerchinese Apr 26 '13 at 23:52