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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Bad character encodings in DocBook files
From:       Eric Bischoff <ebisch () cybercable ! tm ! fr>
Date:       2000-08-28 15:56:08
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Szántó Tamás wrote:
> 
> We (the Hungarian i18n team) have received a bug report
> (the bug code is #8780) that 4 invalid character symbols had been
> found (&#336; &#337; &#368; &#369;) in the translated documentation
> files, and the SGML tools failed to create the HTML documentation.
> These four characters are the following:
> 
> O" = UNICODE hexa 151
> o" = UNICODE hexa 150
> U" = UNICODE hexa 170
> u" = UNICODE hexa 171
> 
> The Hungarian language uses the ISO-8859-2 character set, BTW.
> 
> So far we have been using the &#336; &#337; etc. UNICODE constants, but
> now it seems that this doesn't work correctly. These symbols
> work well in HTML files, they appear properly in all browsers. These
> characters cannot be mapped into the ISO-8859-1 set, and my
> understanding is that it's not allowed to enter such ISO-8859-2
> characters directly into the text (without some kind of encoding).
> 
> WHAT should we do to correct this problem? (Maybe the other ISO-8859-2
> teams could cope with this?)

Can you please send a sample? I'll have a look.


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