[Ilugc] Support for unicode in asciidoc

2011-04-08 Thread Shrinivasan T 
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It seems that asciidoc is not supporting unicode characters.
or it is not working for me.

I am getting only characters like
"வேண்டும்"
in the pdf generated by a2x for the text formatted in asciidoc with
tamil content.

Is it possible to work on unicode text with asciidoc?

Thanks.

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Re: [Ilugc] Support for unicode in asciidoc

2011-04-08 Thread Akilan R 
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

> It seems that asciidoc is not supporting unicode characters.


*ascii*doc. :-)

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Re: [Ilugc] Support for unicode in asciidoc

2011-04-08 Thread Vijay Kumar B . 
Shrinivasan T  writes:
> It seems that asciidoc is not supporting unicode characters.
> or it is not working for me.

I tried to convert an asciidoc UTF-8 file into HTML using Asciidoc 8.2.7. And it
works.

> I am getting only characters like
> "வேண்டும்"
> in the pdf generated by a2x for the text formatted in asciidoc with
> tamil content.

If we were to take asciidoc->xsltproc->fop route, we will have to embed the
Tamil font into the PDF document, and specify for which portions of text it has
to be used. The following page has some suggestions, but it is not for the faint
at heart.

http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200409/CreatingMultipleLanguagePDFusingApacheFOP.html

Regards,
Vijay

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