Hello,
I suspect the effect that you may be observing is Microsoft's handling
of some multibyte characters, where they get mutated to the Unicode
replacement character '�' U+FFFD - which appears to happen very often
when content is imported or pasted into FrameMaker from Microsoft word.
The character is not shown in FrameMaker, but if the file is exported to
XML or HTML, it is rendered as a question mark in a rhombus diamond
symbol: � - as shown on the web page:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm
Some browsers and applications display it as a hollow box character.
If you know the exact position of one of the errant character in the
FrameMaker document, you can select the single character by using the
cursor keys, and press the delete key. For some document I found it was
possible to select Select Edit > Find/Change... ; specify text to find
as: \x0d ; and then click Change All.
Regards
// Simon BUCH
On 09/12/2012 12:52, Steve Rickaby wrote:
At 09:24 +0000 8/12/12, Steve Rickaby wrote:
Plain old MIF-ing fixes it.
This is interesting, as it provided a specific example of an invisible (to the
eye) problem that MIF-washing fixes.
To recap, I had a large table whose first column contained entries of the form
'[xxxx]', where 'xxxx' was a reference marker. The text had originated in Word,
and the table didn't sort properly when the first column was used as the sort
key.
In the MIF, quite a lot of the first column entries were of the form:
<ParaLine
<String `['>
<String `xxxx]'>
> # end of ParaLine
In other words, the '[xxxx]' entry consisted of two separate but adjacent
strings. This messed up the sort. The only visible evidence of this on the
screen was that it took one more right-cursor movement to advance from the
start of the line to past the '[' as expected. Also, the wildcard pattern '^['
didn't get a match.
Clearly one of the things that FrameMaker does when parsing MIF is to spot
adjacent strings like this and concatenate them. Useful to know. Why the text
came out of Word like this is another question altogether. But with Word, who
knows?
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