tabulation minted xelatex

Question

When I use tabulation inside the minted environment in pdflatex, they show as normal (several spaces).

But when I use xelatex, they appear as ^^I.

Example (before each letter a b c, there is space-tabulation-space) :

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{6cm}
\begin{minted}{c}
    a    b   c  
\end{minted}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

In pdflatex I obtain :

result from pdflatex

Using xelatex, I obtain :

result from xelatex

I tried different things to obtain the same behavior for tabulation in xelatex, but did not succeed. How can I do to obtain correct tabulation in minted under xelatex ?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-05T15:24:37.947

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You're going to want to put xelatex into 8bit mode, thereby preventing the escaping of the tab character into a control character.

Try:

xelatex -8bit -shell-escape file.tex

See G. Poore's comment for more details.

edited Sep 05 '13 at 15:24

answered Sep 05 '13 at 14:29

minted needs xelatex to write tabs to a temporary external file, but xelatex requires a special setting to write literal tabs: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58732/how-to-output-a-tabulation-into-a-file/58740#58740 – G. Poore Sep 05 '13 at 14:40

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