[xep-support] UTF data format

[Duncan, David]

Hi,

 I am having a bit of difficulty in rendering any documents with a
particular character in the XSLFO.  The accented A character throws the
following exception when using CLISER to perform the PDF rendering,

	Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8
sequence.java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8
sequence.

I have tried varies things such as specifying UTF-8 encoding when I am
converting between streams and strings, e.g. fo.getBytes("UTF-8").

I have also tried some character conversions using code like (although I
want to avoid this sort of thing for performance reasons),
 

		if (chVal > Byte.MAX_VALUE) {
 
encodedData.append("&#x").append(Integer.toHexString(chVal)).append(";");  
             } else {
                 encodedData.append(ch);
             }

It seems that I can get the PDF to render by trying combinations of these
methods, but the characters always appear strange. We have bullet points and
pound/euro symbols that start appearing as question marks if I start playing
around with encoding. Can someone provide any advice on what the best
approach should be to solve this problem?

Incase this is helpful, I have attached an XML, XSL and XSLFO file that is
causing the problem. The particular line in the XSLFO is,

<fo:block text-align="left">@K2ADD1:10 Ã?rd na Mara</fo:block>

Im not sure if this is important but the Address field with the problematic
character comes from the source XML file. Other special characters I use
(like bullet points) seem to work fine, but are coded into the XSL template
and not the XML. Maybe the XALAN transform is doing something strange? The
attached XSLFO file is a direct print out after the XSL transform is done
and the FO transferred to the CLISER service. Any advice would be
appreciated. 

Thanks for you help,

David D.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com]On Behalf Of David Tolpin
Sent: 02 May 2005 12:05
To: xep-support at renderx.com
Subject: Fwd: [xep-support] Strange behaviour in XEP Assistant


Hi Richard,

my apologies for the wrong name in the e-mail I've just sent.

David

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