whitespace in minted environment produces "^^I"

[Cylox]

Using minted 1.7 with pygmentize 1.6:
This code:
\begin{minted}[fontsize=\footnotesize]{xml}



\end{minted}
will produce the following output:

I'm using windows 7 with miktex 2.9.
I also have another machine which has minted 1.6 and pygmentize 1.5 installed. The output there is absolutely fine.

[Cylox]

Unfortunately the auto-formatting feature here removed the leading white space in my latex code, but every tab in the minted environment gets converted into "^^I" as seen in the picture.

UPDATE: Downgraded to minted 1.6 and it works like a charm:

[gpoore]

Are you using XeLaTeX? It looks like you are using XeLaTeX without the -8bit command-line option. If that option isn't used, tabs written to an external file become ^^I; more here. Let me know if it that's the case; otherwise please let me know exactly how you are compiling the documents.

[Cylox]

Yes, I'm using XeLateX. I tried your suggestion and added the -enable-8bit-chars option. This solved the problem and the minted output is correct now. I used to command line:
xelatex.exe -shell-escape -enable-8bit-chars -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "filename".tex
I used the same line without the -enable-8bit-chars option and it works with minted 1.6, so I'm a bit confused why. Nevertheless it's great to have it running now. Maybe you want to update the minted documentation for this case? (If I simply didn't overlook it). Thanks for your fast reply!

[gpoore]

I have updated the documentation for the next release. I'm also puzzled about why it would work with minted 1.6. I've looked at the changes between 1.6 and 1.7, and don't see anything obvious that would cause different behavior.

[Ahmedshukr]

@gpoore Thanks, this helped me.