Re: [docbook-apps] Incorrect characters in FO / PDF under windows

["Carlos Araya" <carlos at cvc dot edu>]

Peer:

What are you using as your encoding for the XML document? Try using an
encoding that is supported by Java

carlos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peer Brink" <brink@riege.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 05:55
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Incorrect characters in FO / PDF under windows


> Bob Stayton wrote:
> > The problem is not with FOP, because the extra
> > characters are in the FO file before FOP sees them.
>
> I agree.
>
> > The separator between the "1." and the title should be
> > one non-breaking space character, which when encoded
> > in the default UTF-8 output encoding should be a two character
> > sequence C2 A0 (hexadecimal).   When you view the
> > FO file with a typical text editor that assumes ISO-Latin-1
> > encoding, you will see A-caret and a non-breaking space, the characters
> > associated with C2 and A0, respectively, in ISO-Latin-1.
>
> In the correct (Linux-created) Version I in fact find what you are
describing:
> c2 a0
>
> But in the incorrect (windows-created) version there is
> c3 82 c2 a0
>
> How is this non-breaking space character inserted into the fo-file? Does
the stylesheet has to care about the encoding? In other words: could it be a
stylesheet-problem? Or is the transformer (saxon) responsible for the
correct encoding?
>
> > Are you using any kind of customization?
>
> Yes. I'm using a stylesheet-customization and a DTD-customization. But the
problem occurs also without these customizations when using original
stylesheets and DTD.
>
> > Exactly what command
> > are you using to process your files?
>
> I have written my own java-programm using javax.xml.transform.Transformer.
And I'm setting encoding UTF-8 on the org.dom4j.io.OutputFormat before
writing the transformed xml-document to disk.
>
> > Does the FO output file
> > have an encoding="xxx" in the XML declaration at the top?
> > In my output from Saxon 6.5.3 I see:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
> My output-fo has the same XML declaration.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Peer.
>
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