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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Choosing a characterset for DocBook
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 02:58 AM 3/15/02, Jens Stavnstrup wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > 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. OK - then somehow SAXON isn't honoring that. > > 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. SAXON definitely does not have a problem with ISO 8859-1. So somehow it's being told to expect UTF-8. Exactly what are you using in Ant to call SAXON? I haven't done a lot of work with Ant - is SAXON being instructed to read the documents from the filesystem, or are they being passed as a stream of some sort to SAXON? >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. Once you can get SAXON to correctly read in ISO 8859-1 data, you shouldn't have any problems; nearly every Windows and UNIX tool in a western European environment can edit this encoding. The biggest problem you'll run into is Windows users using the 128-159 range for things like curly quotes and ellipses; these characters are control characters in ISO 8859-1, and while not illegal, will not mean what the Windows user thinks they mean. ~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/AwUBPJHVv6xS+CWv7FjaEQKwugCffMf14Ez0TdWE3EuyrGhaZnJGQHUAn3jn mFt26glbd7bgFtn2+LqSkP7n =qMy1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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