Round-tripping Chinese XML

[Gaghan, Steven P.]

Hi Morgan,

You need to specify the Character Encoding in the XML file and also the Display Encoding in FrameMaker. The Structure Application Developer Reference explains this on pages 24 and 25. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev_ref.pdf
The guide was written for Frame 8, but it functions the same in 9.

Regards,

Steve


Steven P. Gaghan
Technical Writer
Tech Pubs
MEDRAD, INC. 
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Indianola, PA 15051
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Hayward, Morgan (Bolton)
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:37 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Round-tripping Chinese XML

Hello Framers,

 

My co-workers and I are trying to round-trip a FrameMaker document given
to us by our translator that was translated into Simplified Chinese.
The XML output appears to be correct, but when we import the document
back into FrameMaker, the characters appear as question marks.

 

The encoding is set to UTF-8.

 

How do we properly round-trip a FrameMaker document that contains
Chinese characters?  Does it have anything to do with the encoding of
the characters when they are added to the document?  Is it related to
the encoding set in the XML file?  Is there a specific setting in the
application definitions we need to set?

 

Any advice you can share would be appreciated.

 

Regards,

Morgan Hayward

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