Special characters conversion in MIF - SOLVED

[Pat Christenson]

I found the answer on Omni Systems page.

Add

UseFrame9MIF=No

Under FDK in the Mif2Go .ini file.

I should've looked there first. /embarrassed/

Pat

On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Pat Christenson wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I have to save a number of FrameMaker 9 files into 7.2. I'm having  
> a problem with special characters such as en & em dashes and  
> spaces. They're converting into strange 3-character sequences. This  
> happens when I use MIF2Go, Toolbox's Document Transfer (FM<->MIF)  
> and Frame"s Save As MIF 9.0.
>
> They convert cleaning if I use Frame's Save As MIF 7.0 but since I  
> have a large number of files, I'd prefer to use MIF2Go or Toolbox.
>
> MIF2Go's documentation has information on mapping individual  
> characters but it seems silly to have to set up a map for every  
> special character. I can't find anything about using MIF2Go to save  
> as MIF 7.0.
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat Christenson
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