AW: [xep-support] Character set problems Linux/Windows

Hi,

Problem description:
The embeded font's in the created PDF with XEP has encoding "Identity-H".
How can i create PDF's with XEP with "Ansi" font-encoding?
I run XEP on Windows XP and use Windows standard fonts like Verdana and Arial.

Comments:
I also user FOP-Renderer. By default FOP also creates PDF with encoding "Identity-H". The solution with FOP to create "Ansi" encoded fonts is to change the encoding of all fonts to "Ansi" first (org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -enc ansi ..\..\fonts\arial.ttf ..\..\fonts\arial.xml). How is the solution with XEP?

Regards, Ronald

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Von: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] Im Auftrag von Hood, Earl
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2006 20:14
An: xep-support@renderx.com
Betreff: RE: [xep-support] Character set problems Linux/Windows

> The characters displayed while running on Linux are actually UTF-8
> rather than windows-1252. So it seams that XEP ignores the encoding
> directive and assume the encoding is whatever is the default for that
> OS. Any way to fix this ?

It does not surprise me that a Linux system does not recognize a Windows-specific character set.

I do not know the internals of XEP character encoding, but the default Java implementation for Linux probably does not support windows-1252, so if XEP does not have its own character encoding support, XEP will not be able to handle it.

At a minimum, XEP should report a warning if a character encoding is not recognized.

Possible work-arounds:

(1) Create your FO in UTF-8. If you know you will be processing an XML document on multiple platforms, it is best to use a non-OS-specific character encoding in your documents.

(2) Preprocess the document to convert windows-1252 to utf-8.
There are several tools available that support character encoding translation. You can look at 'iconv', which should be included in your linux distribution. There is also Perl's Encode module.

--ewh

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Received on Thu Dec 14 00:18:57 2006