Boost logo

Boost Docs :

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Quickbook document author Unicode a accent R&#xE5 isnot converted.
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-24 04:45:11


>I am concerned that when I regenerate the math toolkit docs, poor author
> Johan's name doesn't appear right (it is OK on the 1.44 release, so I am
> doing something wrong).
>
> I get
>
> Johan Råde
>
> The header is
>
> [article Math Toolkit
> [quickbook 1.5]
> [copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 John Maddock, Paul A. Bristow, Hubert
> Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno Lalande, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani and
> Thijs van den Berg]
> [purpose ISBN 0-9504833-2-X 978-0-9504833-2-0, Classification
> 519.2-dc22]
> [license
> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
> (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
> [@http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt])
> ]
> [authors [Maddock, John], [Bristow, Paul A.], [Holin, Hubert], [Zhang,
> Xiaogang], [Lalande, Bruno], [Råde, Johan], [Sewani, Gautam], [van
> den
> Berg, Thijs]]
> [category math]
> [purpose mathematics]
> [/last-revision $Date: 2009-03-16 13:25:22 +0000 (Mon, 16 Mar 2009) $]
> ]
>
> Am I using the wrong (newer) stylesheet?
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
> <title>Math Toolkit</title>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css"
> type="text/css">
> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0">
> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Math Toolkit">
> <link rel="next" href="math_toolkit/main_overview.html" title="Overview">
> </head>
>
> The code display is:
>
> <div class="author"><h3 class="author">
> <span class="firstname">Johan</span> <span
> class="surname">R&amp;#xE5;de</span>
> </h3></div>
>
> and
>
> <div><p class="copyright">Copyright &#169; 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009 John
> Maddock, Paul A. Bristow,
> Hubert Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno Lalande, Johan R&amp;#xE5;de,
> Gautam Sewani
> and Thijs van den Berg</p></div>
>
> (I note that the copyright symbol IS displayed correctly, and other
> symbols
> in the text seem OK too, so it is ).
>
> Suggestions?

None, but can you investigate at what stage the &#xE5; get converted into
&amp;#xE5; ? It could be that quickbook has got smarter at converting
special characters in places it didn't before, and we need to escape to
docbook there.

John.


Boost-Docs list run by mbergal at meta-comm.com