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Subject: RE: Re-post: DOCBOOK-APPS: typographical characters & encoding
Would you mind looking at your documents in 'Plain Text' view in XMetaL and report what your typographical characters look like? Microsoft operating systems and products used to use variants of the ISO 8859 character sets; the one used in Western Europe and USA (1252, http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1252.htm) differs from ISO 8859-1 (http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#ISO-8859-1) in that the code positions 128-159 (0x80-0x9F) are used for various typographical and accented characters. These characters are not represented by any code position in ISO 8859-1; you'll have to use character entities like &rsquot; for U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, rather than 146 (0x92). If you are using Windows NT or Win2K and XMetaL 2.1, you might just want to use UTF-8 encoding everywhere. Be sure to use the Unicode enabled version of XMetaL. Kind regards, Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: Ed Nixon [mailto:ed.nixon@LynnParkPlace.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:55 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: Re-post: DOCBOOK-APPS: typographical characters & encoding Ok, some progress. <snip> > >The XML file is encoded in UTF-8 and today in iso-8859-1. The FO file has >been encoded alternatively in UTF-8 and UTF-16. > <snip>
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