Rob Cavicchio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kindly volunteered to test my Turkish
HTML Help files on a Windows system set up as a Turkish system. It turns
out that when the HTML Help files are compiled on this Turkish system, then
the Index and Search window panes display the correct windows-1254
characters, whereas when the same files were compiled on an English Windows
system, they displayed some incorrect characters.
Fortunately, the CHM file that was compiled on the Turkish system displays
correctly on an English system. So if you want a completely correct
Turkish HTML Help file, you need to output with encoding windows-1254 and
compile it on a Turkish Windows system. Then you can distribute it to any
system.
Thanks, Rob, for your help on this.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DocBook Apps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 3:54 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] problem with HTMLHelp and Turkish content
I'm having a problem building HTML Help output with Turkish content
(lang="tr"). I'm hoping someone has more experience with this issue.
Turkish requires using windows-1254 encoding instead of windows-1252.
The xsltproc processor handles 1254, so I am able to customize the XSL to
output:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1254">
into the HTML files, and compile them using HTML Help Workshop. The text
displays correctly in the main window and in the TOC.
The one problem remaining is that the Index window contains some
incorrect characters. The index includes indexterm elements and the
document titles. It is clear when comparing the 1254 and 1252 encodings
that the incorrect characters are coming from the codepoints in 1252
instead of 1254. For example, "small dotless i" (0xFD in Windows 1254)
is replaced with "small y acute" (0xFD in Windows 1252).
The help index comes from param elements like this contained in <object>
elements in the HTML output:
<param name="Keyword" value="My turkish title">
It seems when the help compiler collects this data, it loses the
connection with the windows-1254 meta information that was at the top of
the HTML file it came from. I have not found a way to specify that the
keyword index should be handled in the 1254 encoding.
Has anyone else seen this problem, and found a solution?
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
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