Thanks for the feedback Linda. Actually, I found an answer on The Helpware Group's website, http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm. This is what they say:
Why does my CHM window show the title "HTML Help " instead of my title? HTML Help is not a Unicode application, and there is a risk of showing garbage characters if the primary language ID of the CHM does not match the primary language ID of the systems LCID (for example a KOR help title displayed on a Japanese OS). The caveat here is when the help title is compiled as English. English help titles can display their titlebar string on all operating systems since all of the code pages support English. Unfortunately the check is too strict. Only the Primary Language ID should be checked, however HH also checks the Secondary Language ID causing say Portuguese (Brazil) help to display HTML Help on a Portuguese (Portugal) PC. In the case of English help, in the past all help had to be set to English (US). This bug was fixed in HH 1.31? and now English (Australian) help for example will display correctly on all systems. -----Original Message----- From: Linda G. Gallagher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 2:41 AM To: Ben Warburton; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: CHM Help Ben, I've seen this, too. My understanding is that when you open the chm file on a French version of Windows, the title will appear correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Windows in other languages, so I've never been able to test it myself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Manager, STC Consulting and Independent Contracting SIG http://www.stcsig.org/cic/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+lindag=techcomplus.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ben Warburton Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:46 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: CHM Help Dear Framers, we have a pesky problem when compiling foreign language HTML Help which someone out there may have resolved long since. We use WebWorks ePublisher to generate the HTML pages from Frame documents. These are then passed to the MS HTML Workshop for compilation. Locale is set in the ePublisher Formats table - e.g. 'fr' for French. This setting is passed into the <HTML> tag which starts each page. In the MS HTML project (HHP) file, there is also a 'locale' field as well as a 'title' field. The title as set here is the string which appears in the title bar of the CHM browser. Now this is where it gets strange. If the locale is left as English, the title appears (in French for example) as set in the HHP file. If the locale is set to French, the title appears as the default "HTML Help". Go figure. We are generating and compiling, by the way, on a multi-language drive. Has anyone come across this glitch? Cheers Ben Warburton Documentation & Training Manager Wilcom Pty Ltd 146-156 Wyndham St Alexandria NSW 2015 Tel: 9578 5175 Fax: 9578 5108 Email: BWt at wilcom.com.au _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
