Sivakatirswami,
The difference is likely due to the fact that when you save as Unix-Unicode-UTF-8 BBEdit saves a unicode BOM file header.
You owe it to yourself to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
-- Frank
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On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:59:13 -1000 From: Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Passing UTF-8 through variables To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Well, it turns out there is nothing wrong with the original file at all... duh! I tried the "old fashioned way" selected/copied the raw text from BBEdit, pasted into a text box in InDesign, select all text and change to MinionD. Yahoo! it works... all these "diacriticals" are just 8-bit chars in the high ascii range (128-255) for font MinionD... ergo, nothing wrong with the file at all.
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
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