Re: encoding problem with Fo file

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

>From: sri vela <sr...@yahoo.com>
>
>Hi all,
>I have a fo file which has some special characters,
>which are not being parsing by FOp and throwing
>"Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence" exception.
>Can any one tell me how to fix this problem.please
>have a look at the Fo file.It is throwing exception at
>single quote which is used in "Trey's" word and also
>throwing the same exception for bullets also.I
>appreciate if some one could help me out from this
>problem.
>

Hi,

firstly questions like this should be posted to the fop-user list, as the 
fop-dev is a development forum.

I ran your file using FOP-0.20.5rc3a and did not receive the Invalid byte 1 
of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence message. Typically you receive this message because 
the file contains characters that are outside the encoding of the XML file. 
The file you provided has a iso-8859-1 encoding.

Your file ran okay, but the apostrophe showed up as #. This means that the 
font family doesnt have a glyph for the codepoint. In the file, the 
codepoint you have used is for a fancy apostrophe. Sorry I didnt have time 
to work out the exact codepoint value. I simply deleted this character and 
inserted an apostrophe using the keyboard one. The output then came out as 
expected. If this is not acceptable then you will have to find a font that 
has a glyph for the fancy apostrophe.

The example you provided didnt have any bulleted lists in it, but I suspect 
you have tried to use a character entity, e.g. &#2022; which is a code point 
that the font family doesnt have a glyph for.

Chris

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