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Iñigo10
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September 15, 2015
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Polish text doesn't show up properly.

  • September 15, 2015
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Polish text doesn't show up properly. Instead you get weird chars like question marks. Anything but the proper Polish diacritics. I have tried with Arial CE and all the fonts that normally don't pose any problem but unsucessfully. Any clue?

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    September 15, 2015

    If you are uisng any version of FM newer than FM7.2, then you must use Unicode values and an appropriate font (as Error indicates).

    Recent versions of Arial should support most CE codepoints of the unicode set.

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    Iñigo10Author
    Participant
    September 16, 2015

    Dear Arnis

    I have to confess that my command of these concepts as codepoints, glyphs, and unicode related term has a lot of room for improvement. The file I am talking was saved using Framemaker 8 with Arial CE and I am using FM 2015 wth the same font and I cannot see the text correctly. Is there any parameter I can modify within FM to correct this? How do you access to the unicode values to correct this behavior?

    I really appreciate your help.

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    September 16, 2015

    Use either the Windows Character Map tool or the internal FM character mapper [under the File menu] to select the desired characters.

    You can also use the appropriate language-specific keyboard sttings in Windows and this should also enter the correct Unicode value for the character.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 15, 2015

    re: Polish text doesn't show up properly. Instead you get weird chars like question marks.

    That's expected behavior when the font in use doesn't populate a glyph for the codepoint entered.

    re: Anything but the proper Polish diacritics.

    Even with a generous Unicode font, FM may not support combining diacritics, if that's how you are doing them, and if it does support combining, what's going into the document is not the sequence but the precomposed Unicode character it maps to, so even if you think you are working with a legacy 8-bit overlay font, FM may be creating Unicode code points (above U+00FF).

    re: I have tried with Arial CE and all the fonts that normally don't pose any problem but unsucessfully. Any clue?

    Arial CE is a legacy overlay font, no? I presume you are applying a Character Format to ensure that Arial CE glyphs are used?

    I would suggest using a well-populated Unicode font. Use Arial Unicode MS until you get a better one (AUM has iffy font metrics).

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