Single Quote Character Translation

[David Ashley <dashley@us.ibm.com>]

All -

My environment is DocBook 3.1 on Fedora Core 3 using Open Jade and the 
DSSSL stylesheets.

When creating a PDF, ASCII single-quote characters are being translated 
into and displayed as right-end-single-quote characters. In normal text 
this is perfectly acceptable, but in program listings, it is NOT 
acceptable. This is due to the fact that on Windows, when you 
cut-and-paste a program listing from my PDF to NotePad (or any other 
simple editor) the character is NOT translated back into a standard ASCII 
single-quote. Thus when you try to compile or use the saved listing you 
get errors from the compiler or intrerpreter.

This problem does not seem to exist on Linux-based systems. Here 
cut-and-paste seems to translate the character back to a standard 
single-quote just fine. The problem is that most of the users of my PDF 
are on Windows.

I have searched the stylesheets for anything that might prevent this 
problem but I cannot locate anything that would be useful. Does anyone 
have a solution for this problem?

Thanks,
W. David Ashley
IBM Linux Technology Center
OpenHPI and Open Object Rexx Team
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