Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Choosing a characterset for DocBook

[Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

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> At 01:52 AM 3/15/02, Jens Stavnstrup wrote:
> >The editing have been done on a Unix platform with Emacs. Occasionally,
> >when copying text from a word document,  Saxon protests (actually
> >Aelfred protests), complaining over "bad continuation of multi-byte UTF-8
> >sequence", which have been a problem, since I have chosen the ISO-8859-1
> >encoding (don't remember why).
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> The parser obviously is not aware that you have chosen ISO 8859-1.  That is 
> the expected error message if an 8859-1 document contains any high bytes 
> (128+) and the parser is trying to parse it as UTF-8.
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> 1) Do all of your entities (i.e., files) have encoding declarations?  What 
> are they?  Remember that UTF-8 is the default unless you explicitly specify 
> a different encoding (or use a byte-order mark, in which case UTF-16 is the 
> default).
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The encoding chosed is as stated above ISO-8859-1, and yes that is 
specified in the XML desclaration statement.


> 2) How are you invoking the parser?  From within SAXON, obviously - is 
> SAXON being called from the command line, or within another program?  What 
> exactly are the parameters it's being passed?
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>From Ant, no specific parameters specified (What are you BTW refering to 
?)

I am still using Saxon 6.4.4, and checking the Change history in 6.5.1, I 
do not see any specific problem with using ISO-8859-1.

My problem is not so much which encoding, I choose (If there  any bugs 
(e.g. characters the parser can't accept), I can fix them). But rather 
trying to avoid my colleagues to ran into these issues.

Regards

Jens


> ~Chris
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