Character Encoding, EBCDIC

2001-10-30 Thread Markus Bernhardt
Hi, my problem is, FOP can't be run on non ascii environments. I started a similar topic in July, my solution worked, but had not been really good for most people. I revised the problem a little bit, and I think I found a solution that should fit for everybody. There are 2 problems: - config fil

Re: EBCDIC os390

2002-03-06 Thread Markus Bernhardt
Hi Jason, I think this solution will work. Hope this will make it at the end to the official package. But, are you sure the encoding has to be or may be dynamic ? AFAIK pdf is a binary format. The content can be divided in two parts, the tags and the data. The tags are always binary the same. No

Problem with EBCDIC on OS/390

2001-07-20 Thread Markus Bernhardt
Hi ! First, I have not found a searchable archive of the mailing list, so I don't know whether this topic has been discussed earlier and I have not found any documentation on this. Has anybody running FOP on OS/390 ? We found several hard to find and fix problems using xerces, xalan, fop under

Bug fix for non ASCII environments

2001-07-22 Thread Markus Bernhardt
Hi ! Finally we have the actual FOP running under OS/390. We simply replaced all occurencies of string.getBytes() with: try { string.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException) {} Is there any chance this fix could go into the official FOP package. It will took only ab

Re: Bug fix for non ASCII environments

2001-07-23 Thread Markus Bernhardt
AI can see there should be NO changes in the behavior of FOP on any ASCII based system, because java already uses this encoding scheme. Are there unicode PDF files ? Can FOP create unicode PDF files ? > > > -----Original Message- > From: Markus Bernhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug fix for non ASCII environments

2001-07-23 Thread Markus Bernhardt
David BAUDOIN wrote: > Hi, > > http://xml.apache.org/mail/fop-dev/ is a working archive of this mailing > list. Is there also a SEARCHABLE list ? > > > Regards, > David Baudoin > > - Original Message - > From: Darren Munt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, J

Re: Bug fix for non ASCII environments

2001-07-23 Thread Markus Bernhardt
  Tore Engvig wrote: To answer your questions: Yes, there are unicode pdf files. Good. Fop can generate pdf files for non iso 8859 encodings if you provide fonts that support it. I think fonts haven't been my problem. The problem was that the PDF structure is coded as strings into the java source

Re: Bug fix for non ASCII environments

2001-07-23 Thread Markus Bernhardt
Thx ! Hoang Nam wrote: Sure! Try this link : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&w=2&r=1&s=compression&q=b - Original Message ----- From: "Markus Bernhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:26 PM Subject: