[xep-support] Re: String encoding issue

[Dave Pawson]

Wondering if it is an encoding issue?
utf-8 all the way through? XML, XSLT and XSL-FO?

HTH

On 19 July 2018 at 17:51, Morley Tooke <morley.tooke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I've done some more digging on this.
>
> To refresh you, this element:
>
> <fig id="fig_ddr_pvp_xdb" class="- topic/fig ">
>    <title class="- topic/title ">Injection Well W01I01: Process
> Control</title>
> ...
> fails to render the digits after the W and produces this output:
>
> Figure: Injection Well W
>
> whereas this element:
>
>  <fig id="fig_ddr_pvp_xdb" class="- topic/fig ">
>    <title class="- topic/title ">Injection Well Y01I01: Process
> Control</title>
> ...
>
>  produces this output:
>
> Figure:  Injection Well Y01I01: Process Control
>
> I can change that string to anything else and it works fine, but this string
> seems to get picked up by some other process.
>
> This is what my FO looks like:
>
>   <fo:block id="unique_11_Connect_42_fig_ddr_pvp_xdb"><fo:inline
> id="unique_11_Connect_42_image_cxc_yvw_j2b"
> margin-right="0.15in"><fo:external-graphic content-width="5.5in"
> src="url(images/fc_all_field_common_injection_well_W01_pcd.png)"/></fo:inline><fo:block
> font-size="10pt" font-weight="bold"
> keep-with-previous.within-column="always"
> keep-with-previous.within-page="always" space-after="10pt"
> space-before="0pt" line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts"
> font-family="agenda,helvetica,Symbol">Figure 7: Injection Well W01I01:
> Process Control</fo:block></fo:block>
>
>   <fo:block
> id="unique_11_Connect_42_fig_ddr_pvp_xdb_d2e1293a1310"><fo:inline
> id="unique_11_Connect_42_image_cxc_yvw_j2b_d2e1298a1310"
> margin-right="0.15in"><fo:external-graphic content-width="5.5in"
> src="url(images/fc_all_field_common_injection_well_W01_pcd.png)"/></fo:inline><fo:block
> font-size="10pt" font-weight="bold"
> keep-with-previous.within-column="always"
> keep-with-previous.within-page="always" space-after="10pt"
> space-before="0pt" line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts"
> font-family="agenda,helvetica,Symbol">Figure 8: Injection Well Y01I01:
> Process Control</fo:block></fo:block>
>
> Other things:
>
> 1. The html output works as expected.
> 2. The stock dita pdf2 output has the same error, so it doesn't seem to be
> my custommization.
> 3. I'm using Version 4.24.395
>
> I'm at a loss. I've tweaked my customization and found nothing (attrs and
> xslt) .Can you please create a fig.title element with that string in it and
> see what happens?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:46 PM Kevin Brown <kevin at renderx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Another debug test would be to run the document to FO (do not delete the
>> final FO that is being sent).
>>
>> Examine that.
>>
>> 1)      Are the characters there or not? If they are not … it is something
>> in the DITA/XSL chain and has nothing to do with the PDF generation.
>>
>> 2)      If they are … then post the two snippets of the FO so we can
>> examine what fonts are used and what character selection strategy
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin Brown
>>
>> RenderX
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of
>> Kevin Brown
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:37 AM
>> To: 'RenderX Community Support List' <xep-support at renderx.com>
>> Subject: [xep-support] Re: String encoding issue
>>
>>
>>
>> It is completely unclear how this relates to RenderX but one guess would
>> be that you are using different fonts in each of the two representations.
>>
>> One font contains those glyphs, the other does not.
>>
>> Check what fonts are used in each of two cases.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin Brown
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces at renderx.com] On Behalf Of
>> Morley Tooke
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:32 AM
>> To: RenderX Community Support List <xep-support at renderx.com>
>> Subject: [xep-support] String encoding issue
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> One of my writers has run into an issue where a string of numbers in a fig
>> is being rendered out of his topic. I've seen this once before with a very
>> similar string.This is his code:
>>
>>
>>
>> <title class="- topic/title ">Injection Well W01I01: Process
>> Control</title>
>>
>>
>>
>> His output looks something like this:
>>
>>
>>
>> Injection Well W
>>
>>
>>
>> There is nothing special in the PDF customization code.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the rest of his email to me:
>>
>>
>>
>> The basic gist is that I have a well that is labelled W010I01. And when I
>> enter that label in body text, it renders fine in the PDF. However, when I
>> enter it in a fig title tag, the W will render, but the rest of the text is
>> left blank. EG:
>>
>>
>>
>> I have tried a few variations in the title text to see what happens.
>> Adding a space between W and 0 works fine:
>>
>>
>>
>> As does replacing the first 0 with a capital O:
>>
>>
>>
>> But W01xxx is a no-go. So, far as I can gather, EasyDITA or Oxygen are
>> interpreting that W01xxx as something other than plain text, and removing it
>> from the document altogether.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>>
>> Morley
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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