How to write in French when using Constantia font?

Question

I can not write some French letters (é, è, â, ...) when I use the font Constantia.
This is what I declared before the start of my document:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}   
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Constantia}

How can I use this font and be able to write in French without a problem ?

Here is the full packages list I loaded:

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}   
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Constantia}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}  
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{bchart}
\usepackage{array}%for setting cells length
\usepackage{color} 
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[grey,utopia]{quotchap}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{pifont}
\frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true}
\usepackage{wasysym}%for the phone
\usepackage[square, numbers, comma, sort&compress]{natbib}

Remove the loading of inputenc and of fontenc. Where did you download the font? — egreg, Apr 28 '14 at 17:45
I removed them but the error is still there. Constantia exists in fontspec package — , Apr 28 '14 at 17:49
This one: ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u 8:\GenericError {(inputenc) — , Apr 28 '14 at 17:51
You can't get an error from inputenc if you don't load it. — egreg, Apr 28 '14 at 17:52
Perhaps you're loading a class or package that internally loads inputenc. You need to provide a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates the problem. — Nicola Talbot, Apr 28 '14 at 17:56
Do you compile with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX? Are you sure your source file is UTF8 encoded? — Bernard, Apr 28 '14 at 18:41
I think you should remove inputenc and fontenc packages. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/58761/xelatex-fontspec-restore-original-fonts — aignas, Apr 28 '14 at 22:40
I edited my question to show you all the packages I loaded (and yes, as I said before, I removed inputenc and fontenc but the problem was there) — , Apr 29 '14 at 05:45
You say you've commented out the two potentially offending packages (inputenc and fontenc), yet I see them at the very beginning of your edited code snippet. — Mico, Apr 29 '14 at 05:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '14 at 05:52

Load everything which depends to a font setting before loading fontspec. Then it works, at least for me :-)

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{wasysym}%for the phone
\usepackage[grey,utopia]{quotchap}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Constantia}
\usepackage[english,frenchb]{babel}  

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{bchart}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true}
\usepackage[square, numbers, comma, sort&compress]{natbib} 
\begin{document}
é, è, â

\end{document}

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How to write in French when using Constantia font?

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