problems with unicode in a table

[Michael König <Mi...@ms-koenig.de>]

Hello,
I use a table where I find a strange behaviour.

Whenever I use a unicode-character like the Euro-Currency-Symbol \u20AC
the following columns a more or less shifted to the right.

Like this:

no unicode used     19,00
with unicode           19,00
no unicode          20,00


The table is formated like this:
  <fo:table-row>
    <fo:table-cell>
      <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="summe/beschreibung"/></fo:block>
    </fo:table-cell>
    <fo:table-cell>
      <fo:block text-align="end"><xsl:value-of
select="summe/betrag"/></fo:block>
    </fo:table-cell>
  </fo:table-row>

and the xml:
..
<summe><beschreibung>no unicode
used</beschreibung><betrag>19,00</betrag></summe>
<summe><beschreibung>with unicode
&#x20AC;</beschreibung><betrag>20,00</betrag></summe>
..

Any idea?
By the way, the DOM-Document has encoding="UTF-8"

Thanks, Michael

Re: problems with unicode in a table

[Chuck Paussa <Ch...@systems.dhl.com>]

Michael,

I saw this discussed before. Apparently your fontname.xml file does not 
have a character width defined for the euro symbol. So, FOP calculates 
the starting position for printing the text assuming that the euro 
symbol has no size. The fix was to alter the fontname.xml file pointed 
to by your userconfig.xml file. If this is an embedded font, then you 
have to actually hack the fontname.xml file that is being compiled into 
FOP. I really have no idea how you would do any of these things but, 
that was the thread of the discussion.

Chuck


Michael König wrote:

>Hello,
>I use a table where I find a strange behaviour.
>
>Whenever I use a unicode-character like the Euro-Currency-Symbol \u20AC
>the following columns a more or less shifted to the right.
>
>Like this:
>
>no unicode used     19,00
>with unicode           19,00
>no unicode          20,00
>
>
>The table is formated like this:
>  <fo:table-row>
>    <fo:table-cell>
>      <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="summe/beschreibung"/></fo:block>
>    </fo:table-cell>
>    <fo:table-cell>
>      <fo:block text-align="end"><xsl:value-of
>select="summe/betrag"/></fo:block>
>    </fo:table-cell>
>  </fo:table-row>
>
>and the xml:
>..
><summe><beschreibung>no unicode
>used</beschreibung><betrag>19,00</betrag></summe>
><summe><beschreibung>with unicode
>&#x20AC;</beschreibung><betrag>20,00</betrag></summe>
>..
>
>Any idea?
>By the way, the DOM-Document has encoding="UTF-8"
>
>Thanks, Michael
>
>