Hi, Thanks, that clarifies the situation. This seems to be a two-byte encoding, perhaps specific to Microsoft's Symbol font? I thought the Symbol font was single byte, so I'm not understanding those numbers. Anybody else recognize this?
Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Christian Brugeron To: DocBook Apps Cc: Mathieu Malaterre ; Bob Stayton Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Converting Symbol Fonts to UTF-8 What I have done sometimes, is an <xsl:choose> on the charcarer when I can identify that the original font is "symbol". I had to use it on a Word XML file. example: <xsl:template match="w:s...@w:font='Symbol']"> <xsl:variable name="code"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F06C'">955</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F065'">917</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F071'">920</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F061'">913</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F074'">932</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F0B4'">215</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F0CF'">8714</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="@w:char = 'F070'">928</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>000</xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:variable> <span face="Symbol"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('&#',$code,';')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> </span> </xsl:template> other example: <xsl:template name="symbol"> <xsl:param name="text">AAA</xsl:param> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$text = 'p'">π</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="$text = 'a'">α</xsl:when> <!-- alpha --> <xsl:when test="$text = 'W'">W</xsl:when> <!-- W --> <xsl:when test="$text = 'q'">q</xsl:when> <!-- q --> <xsl:otherwise>000<xsl:comment><xsl:value-of select="$text"/></xsl:comment></xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> Christian Le 18 avr. 2010 à 16:16, Bob Stayton a écrit : Hi, I'm not clear on what it means for a text to be written using the 'Symbol' font. Can you provide a short example and an explanation of how it was created? Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathieu Malaterre" <[email protected]> To: "DocBook Apps" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:33 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] Converting Symbol Fonts to UTF-8 Hi there, I am wondering if anyone has dealt with this issue before: how can I convert a text that was written using the 'Symbol' fonts into something more portable (UTF-8 for instance) ? Thanks -- Mathieu Ref: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110872 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
