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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Choosing a characterset for DocBook
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 01:52 AM 3/15/02, Jens Stavnstrup wrote: > >The editing have been done on a Unix platform with Emacs. Occasionally, > >when copying text from a word document, Saxon protests (actually > >Aelfred protests), complaining over "bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8 > >sequence", which have been a problem, since I have chosen the ISO-8859-1 > >encoding (don't remember why). > > The parser obviously is not aware that you have chosen ISO 8859-1. That is > the expected error message if an 8859-1 document contains any high bytes > (128+) and the parser is trying to parse it as UTF-8. > > 1) Do all of your entities (i.e., files) have encoding declarations? What > are they? Remember that UTF-8 is the default unless you explicitly specify > a different encoding (or use a byte-order mark, in which case UTF-16 is the > default). > The encoding chosed is as stated above ISO-8859-1, and yes that is specified in the XML desclaration statement. > 2) How are you invoking the parser? From within SAXON, obviously - is > SAXON being called from the command line, or within another program? What > exactly are the parameters it's being passed? > From Ant, no specific parameters specified (What are you BTW refering to ?) I am still using Saxon 6.4.4, and checking the Change history in 6.5.1, I do not see any specific problem with using ISO-8859-1. My problem is not so much which encoding, I choose (If there any bugs (e.g. characters the parser can't accept), I can fix them). But rather trying to avoid my colleagues to ran into these issues. Regards Jens > ~Chris > - -- > Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting > DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 > > iQA/AwUBPJHHt6xS+CWv7FjaEQLVtACeK8vhtpW0lR1Lglhu7WVezv7JmC4AoLa9 > W3ZjhuuDFZojp05ANUG/pp56 > =GoOY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --
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