OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

[Jim Owens]

Hi, Jeremy.  I'm using SBAppLocale to compile (as recommended in the 
Mif2Go Guide!), and Search is working OK in Arabic. In fact, the Arabic 
is OK everywhere in the output -- except for the Related Topics button 
text, and the link text in the Related Topics "Topics Found" dialog box.

Setting aside the compilation, if I just open an HTML page in a browser, 
everything is in Arabic, except the text on the Related Topics button 
(which is in something like Cyrillic) and the text in the Related Topics 
dialog for the button (which is all question marks unless I set the 
system locale to Arabic, in which case it's something like Cyrillic).

The pages are all encoded with windows-1256.


On 2013-02-13 10:01, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:44:07 -0500, Jim Owens <jowens at magma.ca> wrote:
>
>> We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control.  When we
>> create an <Item> with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters
>> appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is
>> set to Arabic.  Everything else in the compiled help uses the correct
>> Arabic characters, whether or not the system locale is set to Arabic.
>> The encoding used by our translator is windows-1256.
>>
>> Is there something we can try, or is this just a limitation of the control?
> When you comiled the Arabic CHM, did you do it on
> an Arabic system?  NOT just one with the locale set?
> That's what HTML Help requires for Search to work;
> always has.  Not just for Arabic, but for any other
> locale.
>
> Also, are all your HTML files in the correct Code
> Page encoding, 1256?  Unicode will NOT work for
> HTML Help, though you may think it does.
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>    <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/
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