FrameMaker 7.1p116 + Slovak

We have a strange problem with FrameMaker 7.1p116 and with slovak. Most of time writing slovak langugae works correctly. But for some documents when we use slovak diacritics letter. The diacritics doesn't work. It displays "?" instead of "ľ", and for example "s" instead of "š". Sometimes also "?" instead of "š". The problem is also with other letters. But in the same document, we delete the element in which this doesn't work and we insert element again and voila, the diacritics works. Has someone similar problem? And what can we do? Peter/

Peter,

the lack of answers may come from the fact, that FM7.1 is rarely used meanwhile, especially when working with non-roman text encodings. FM7.2 included some improvements for these encodings, but I don't think you can get an update to this version now (if not via ebay). Upgrading to FM 8/9 would be the best solution, since Unicode is your friend when writing in Eastern European (and many other) languages

Anyway, the problems you describe sound like local formattings, which have been manually applied (without showing a character format being used). This may happen either by importing/copying text from e.g. Word, or by manually applying a font (not a character format) to marked text. Deleting such text and inserting it again of course removes any irregular formatting (or encoding), which is why it works afterwards.

FM7.x still works with virtual and/or code page specific fonts (CE, CYR, ROM etc.) and needs to know the code page to be used for text. When importing text from newer Word versions (2000…2007), this code page specific information is not necessarily transferred, since Word uses Unicode. Your best chance in such a case is opening the text in WordPad (!), apply (or check) the correct language/encoding there and save as RTF. These RTFs open correctly in FM7.x.

Bernd