But, the way of saving the file in BBEdit is crucial: we set the file type in BBEdit to save as
Unix- Unicode- UTF-8
Then the import into InDesign with XML tags mapped to character styles worked fine. The problem seems to have been that the file was being saved in BBEdit as a MacIntosh file. If we set it to mac-unicode-iso-8859-1 bbedit would give an unmappable char msg. If we set it to save as mac-not-unicode-iso-8859-1... all problems in BBEdit woudl go away, but it would not import the characters correctly as xml in Indesign. Only Unix- Unicode- UTF-8 worked in both environments.
Frankly I feel like a doctor talking about "eczema" for which he knows not the cause or the cure, but pretends to his patient have some great knowledge via the use of fancy labels for observable phenomena. When in fact the only thing he *really* knows is "You have a skin problem." "Right, I knew that before I came to see you..."
In this case we are one step further... we know not the cause but we did find a cure, though the mode of operation of that is still unknown, but all we really know is "its an encoding thing.." (smile)
Dar, your tips did put me onto it though, thanks.
Sivakatirswami
On Feb 27, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
On Feb 27, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I am *way* out of my depth here..
Does this fix the file?
on mouseUp
put "/Volumes/Varuna/Books/LWS Pocketbook/lws_pocket_book utf-8.xml" into oldFile
put "/Volumes/Varuna/Books/LWS Pocketbook/test utf-8.xml" into newFile
put URL ("binfile:" & oldFile) into oldData
put unidecode(uniencode(oldData), "UTF8") into newData
put newData into URL ("binfile:" & newFile)
end mouseUp
I just typed it up off the top of my head, so you may have to fiddle with it.
If it works, that should give you a clue as to what to do in output in the index app.
Dar
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