German umlauts in dialogue windows

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4 total messages Started by Martin_Furrer Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:12

#314

Author: Martin_Furrer
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:12

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I installed Framemaker 8.0.4 on Solaris.
When I enter german umlauts (or french accents) in any text field of any dialogue window, Framemaker does not echo the umlaut, but a character sequence, e.g. '%X8A', instead of an '�' character. This is quite annoying, because I cannot e.g. search my document for german words containing umlauts. In Framemaker 6 I did not have this problem.
I can cut and paste (with mouse buttons) an '�' character from a text editor into a FM text field, which will be echoed correctly. Entering umlauts in the document window also works well.
How can I fix this?

Re: German umlauts in dialogue windows

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Author: Winfried_Reng
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:26

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Hi Martin,

You did not say, whether a search with "%X8A" does find occurrences of �.

The code is the hex code equivalent of � - apart from that the hex code should start with \ and your example starts with %. I do not know, whether % is the correct character for Solaris.

On Windows I can search for \x8a and find �.

All hex codes are listed in Character_Sets.pdf in "documents" in the FrameMaker installation folder. (Possibly the folders have different names on Solaris.)

Best regards

Winfried

Re: German umlauts in dialogue windows

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Author: Martin_Furrer
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:29

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Hi Winifried,
thank you for your reply.

Searching for %X8A does not find an �, but searching for \x8a does find it. Also when I paste an � from a text editor in the search field, Framemaker can find it.

Re: German umlauts in dialogue windows

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Author: Amit Agarwal
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:20

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Hi Martin,

It seems you are using a non-UTF locale. Pls try using FM on a Solaris UTF8 locale, this might fix the issue.

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