Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Encoding for French?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:45:48AM -0500, Dan York wrote:
>   Generating HTML pages...../userguide6000.xml:12: error: Input is not proper
>   UTF-8, indicate encoding !
>   Permission est donnée de copier, diffuser et (ou) modifier le présent document 
>                      ^

  Libxml complains that the document is not in UTF8 while there is no
encoding support.

> What encoding should I use to allow French letters?

  Usually you will need Iso Latin 1, but people start to switch to
Iso Latin 15 to get the Euro symbol support. Make sure you have
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

at the beginning of all entities using the french characters.

Daniel

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