Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with Unicode strings using docbook2pdfand docbook2html under Linux

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

> I am creating a book using XML DocBook. I use docbook2pdf and docbook2html
> tools under Linux (Fedora Core 6). 

You can try to use XSL toolchain instead of DSSSL one. There is no new
development in DSSSL stylesheets.

> When dealing with English text,
> everything is fine, but when I want to enter text in my own language
> (Persian), these two tools, complain about Unicode strings. My main XML
> file
> looks like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" encoding="utf-8"?>
...
> I can not figure out the problem. By the way, the errors were reported as
> follows:
...
> jade:/opt/slm/doc/sgmlSources/manual.xml:19:12:E: non SGML character number
> 132

Try to set environment variable SP_ENCODING to value XML. It should help.

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