Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Error: Output character not available

[Gershon L Joseph <gershon at mainsoft dot com>]

Please ignore my previous plea for further assistance. I saved my source
XML as iso-8859-1 encoding and put the 3 parameter settings in my driver
file instead of on the command line. One or all of these fixed the
problem.

Thanks Jirka for pointing me in the right direction. I did read that in
the docs, but did not realize it applies to English and UTF-8 under all
circumstances.

Gershon


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Gershon L Joseph wrote:

> Jirka,
>
> Thanks for your help. Adding "htmlhelp.encoding=windows-1252" helped. But
> then I get the following error:
>
> ...
> Writing htmlhelp.hhp
> Error on line 117 of
> file:/C:/tools/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.45/html/chunker.xsl:
>   Output character not available in this encoding (decimal 174)
> Transformation failed: run-time errors were reported
>
> Using the following command with all 3 parameters you suggested makes no
> difference:
>
> saxon M:\doc\doc\products\mainwin\techdoc\src\docset.xml
>  m:\doc\doc\tools\xsl\hh.xsl "htmlhelp.encoding=windows-1252"
>  "default.encoding=windows-1252" "saxon.character.representation=native"
>
> The truth is I don't need to encode my XML source in UTF-8. I use English
> language only, so I could use ISO-8859-1. I used UTF-8 because it's become
> the default in Epic and I figured this way I could write other languages
> in the future without needing any further changes. Perhaps I was wrong.
>
> Do you suggest I change my XML source to ISO-8859-1, or is there a better
> solution?
>
> By the way, I get the above errors while processing the XSL stylesheet,
> not when running hhc.exe. The error occurs while the htmlhelp.hhp file is
> being written.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Gershon
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>
> > Gershon L Joseph wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got Saxon 6.4.3 working with the XSL DocBook stylesheets, and on some
> > > XML source files produce nice HTML Help. However, on a large docset I
> > > get the following error:
> > >
> > > Error on line 117 of
> > > file:/C:/tools/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.45/html/chunker.xsl:
> > >   Output character not available in this encoding (decimal 8217)
> > > Transformation failed: run-time errors were reported
> > >
> > > My XML files are encoded in UTF-8, so I don't understand what's going on
> > > here. Any ideas?
> >
> > Well, there is another prove of bad design of HTML Help Workshop. This
> > appliacation can't handle Unicode properly. You must use single-byte
> > encodings in configuration files. By default ISO-8859-1 encoding is used
> > and this encoding didn't contain Unicode character 8217 (right single
> > quotation mark). Only solution to get around this problem is using other
> > encoding which contains this character. It depends on language you are
> > using, but windows-1252 might be useful for you. You can change encoding
> > used for project file by parameter htmlhelp.encoding. You can set this
> > parameter in customization file or pass it on command line:
> >
> > saxon yourfile.xml /path/to/htmlhelp.xsl
> > "htmlhelp.encoding=windows-1252"
> >
> > This will solve error mentioned in your message. If you will get some
> > "funny" characters in ToC or index, you should use two additional
> > parameters to finaly solve lacks in HTML Help:
> >
> > saxon yourfile.xml /path/to/htmlhelp.xsl
> > "htmlhelp.encoding=windows-1252" "default.encoding=windows-1252"
> > "saxon.character.representation=native"
>
>
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