Re: [Boost-docs] Quickbook document author Unicode a accent R&#xE5 isnot converted.

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Quickbook document author Unicode a accent R&#xE5 isnot converted.
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-24 13:24:55

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Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Quickbook document author Unicode a accent R&#xE5
isnot converted.

On 24 August 2010 12:09, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> I've tried changing the file type to UTF-8 in Textpad and inserting 
> the right å char from MS charmap.  This looks OK on the editor screen
[snip]
> /math.xml:23: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding
!
> Bytes: 0xE5 0x64 0x65 0x3C
>      <firstname>Johan</firstname> <surname>Råde</surname>
>                                             ^

I don't know Textpad, but this error suggests that you haven't saved as
UTF-8. I'll try it out.

You are correct - I changed the document property but that isn't enough -
you need to Save As with type UTF-8 too.

Now works OK thanks.

Paul

(I am not sure that this is the best solution long term - I am sure others
would expect &0x0E5 to work as it does elsewhere.)

> Aside This isn' t what is expected either:
>
>    [category math]
>    [purpose mathematics]
>
> Are these now unused/unsupported?
>
> (were not very useful?)

These are attributes for the 'library' type in boostbook, but aren't valid
for any of the other docbook types. It doesn't matter much, since they're
just ignored, but I'm trying to get quickbook to generate valid boostbook
and warn for anything that it isn't valid.

So should I just delete them?

Paul