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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Mathy V Arumugam <ma...@jpl.nasa.gov> on 2002/07/13 00:14:36 UTC
Re: double dagger -- strange
I copied the 'fraction slash' and 'dbl low line' symbols (the same way as
the dbl dagger symbol). Those two symbols are displaying the unicode of
⁄ and ‗ (and not the # sign).
Mathy
At 7/12/2002 03:01 PM, you wrote:
>>Usually a bad idea. The double dagger is U+2021. Does
>>your DB handle multibyte Unicode characters properly?
>
>Yes, it does.
>
>>> With the help of notepad/wordpad I am able to see the dagger symbol
>>> in the xml file I created. So far so good..
>>If you really use ISO-8859-1 encoding for your XML, you
>>should see either ‡ or ‡ instead. Check the
>>encoding in the XML declaration again, this is what matters.
>
>hmmm, well, xsl file has the following statement: <xsl:output method="xml"
>encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
>xml has: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
>Am I supposed to declare the encoding elsewhere?
>
>
>
>>I have no problems to get the dbldagger displayed.
>>Replace the dbldagger by ‡ in your XML file
>>and see whether the problem persists.
>
>1) I tried to replace the dbldagger symbol with the unicode ‡ in
>the database. both PDF and xml view is displaying just the unicode (‡)
>
>2)When I replace the dbldagger with ‡ in the xml file already
>created, I do see the dbldagger symbol.
>
>
>Thanks for all your help!
>Mathy