Another issue with character encoding and Web Works Publisher

[Michael Müller-Hillebrand]

Am 20.05.2010 um 13:11 schrieb Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp:

> Hi,
> 
> Additional to my other query, here' another one, for those who work with WWP
> 2003.
> 
> I'm not a frequent WWP user, so not very familiar with that tool.
> I'm compiling a help project based on Russian FrameMaker files (FM 7.2, WWWP
> 2003 version 8.6.6587). We're creating a .chm file.
> 
> All text goes ok in Russian characters, TOC is ok but the Index shows up as
> gabberish.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do to get this Index correct in Russian characters?

Wim,

You are out of luck with this. You have to revert the project to the pre-2003 method of handling the Index, that is make WWP use the generated index from your FrameMaker book instead of the content of the Index markers. Also, I don't think that WWP 2003 has built-in the necessary sorting rules to create a Russian index — FrameMaker is ultimately flexible with this.

Why is this? Well, your normal text content uses a font like "XYZ Cyr" for Russian text and you have a special mapping for this font, so the letters appear correctly in HTML. But inside markers there is no font, so the system has no way to decide which mapping to use. Well, you could make some tests and try to trick WWP in always using the Cyrillic mapping, but this still does not give you a Russian sort order!

[BTW, the very same thing happens when migrating Cyrillic documents to FrameMaker8/9: Text is usually handled OK, but marker content is not.]

Previous version of WWP converted the Index based on the generated Index from FrameMaker, then the Index entries are all text with a font and the mapping is fine.

- Michael (who stopped consulting WWP2003 some years ago, he thought...)

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