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Re: Fwd: Re: Invisible tech symbols
- From: jonathon <jblake at eskimo dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:10:01 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: DOCBOOK: Invisible tech symbols
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Doug du Boulay wrote:
]>> The file is well-formed and valid, it produces nice .html and .pdf but
]>> some symbols ("forall" and "and") are invisible (pdf) or look like
]>> small squares (html). Why is it so and how can I fix it ?
]>
]>I dont know what the official answer is, but for html, what I do is
]>replace all the unknown character entities with inline gifs.
a) Change the character set to either UTF-8 or UTF-16.
b) Add a line to the head section indicating that fact.
c) Use SED or PERL to change all the docbook character
entitites to UTF-8 or UTF-16 character entities.
d) Trust that your visitors are using browsers that understand
XML, XHTML and CSS.
That only works with HTML. I can't help with the pdf stuff.
xan
jonathon
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