- Summary
- Problems with german characters
- Type
- Question
- Raised by
- Andreas
- Date opened
- Saturday, 3 June 2006
- Description
- German “Umlaute” (ä ö ü) and some quotes as “ do not work?
- Importance
- 3
- Proposed solution
- Investigate the umlaute character problem. The current page typesets both them and the quote marks correctly. Check the character encoding; by default, Wikipublisher uses iso-8859–1. This is defined in $XMLEncodingFmt.
- Wikipublisher automatically turns straight quotes into the correct curly quote characters, in HTML and PDF. However, smart quotes copied and pasted from a word processor result in invalid characters in the PDF.
- We have replicated the umlaute problem on a different server and are testing a solution. The problem also affects other accented characters. See Accented Characters, which works correctly on this installation.
- Urgency
- 3
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Always use straight quotes and let wikipublisher curl them automatically. Avoid copying and pasting content from a word processor — this often causes problems in the resulting pdf.
- On some systems, we may need to replace accented characters with the corresponding LATEX macro commands, using tbrplents. Fixed in server version 0.9.5b — see ReleaseLog.20070509.
- Date closed
- Wednesday, 9 May 2007