On 13/05/2019 16:27, Mark Rotteveel [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > How is this on topic for firebird-support? Did you mean to mail this to > someone else?
It's I direct follow on from the question of switching a database from 'NONE' to 'UTF8' ... I was only when I started looking into that and just how to migrate from on database to another that the reason for a different problem came to light ... Something of a heads up s to the problem, but the question is just how does one know just how to migrate existing data? > On 11-5-2019 17:22, Lester Caine [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: >> With the sorting out of unicode encoded text I've just hit a related >> funny. I've been given a quantity of original PageMaker documents which >> include a quantity of poetry for which the layout and punctuation is a >> substantial part of the content. I'd had to find the original fonts, or >> so I thought to get these to render on an old setup of PageMaker. What I >> had no anticipated was that while the characters themselves may be >> slightly different from scans of the original published books, some of >> the quotation marks were simply 'wrong'. Not yet verified the whole >> book, but single and double quotes are being rendered as actual foreign >> characters. What I thought would be a quick job is now something of a >> nightmare! And I've no way to check just how the original probably >> pre-XP machine was set up. Looks like I'll need to work out just what >> characters are used in the documents, but the three copies of the font >> I've found have different layouts for the punctuation :( Fortunately >> I've got access to the original author ... it's his website I building >> .... so we can HOPEFULLY identify the correct unicode codes for use >> on-line, but I doubt there are unicode versions of the old fonts he used >> originally? Need to find the best match possible while maintaining the >> original layout of text. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk
