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November 21, 2023
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Tabs (or perhaps special characters) are being replaced by odd characters in ePub publishing

  • November 21, 2023
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When I publish a book to Epub out of FrameMaker Version: 17.0.3.546, I get this odd result. It seems like the special characters -  in this case the bullet are being duplicated with code. Or perhaps it is the tab character. I don't know. The bulllets have been made using WingDings which normally works okay, but apparently not any more. Can it be fixed?

 

 

 

 

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    Correct answer FrameMaker-dk

    This "thing" is all a bit mysterious. It seems FrameMaker has some sort of internal guideline only picking up certain paragraph styles and leaving the rest with "garbage characters". I have tried experimenting with creating duplicate paragraph formats and giving them different names. And some names work better than others.

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    November 21, 2023

    Wingdings, wingings2, wingdings3, webdings & Zapf dingbats are legacy overlay/codepage fonts. This pre-Unicode hack can't be expected to work for HTML output, and maybe not eBooks.

    An FM document using overlay/codepage fonts needs to replace them with native Unicode. Most of those dingbat glyphs now have codepoints in Unicode, if you have a font that populates them, however…

    Some of them ended up in the Supplementary Planes (above U+FFFF), which FM does not yet support.

      Bob_Niland
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      Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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      November 22, 2023

      The &#8203 (&#x200B) is U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE
      It is not the bullet, nor a tab. I'm not sure why it's there at all.

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        November 24, 2023

        This "thing" is all a bit mysterious. It seems FrameMaker has some sort of internal guideline only picking up certain paragraph styles and leaving the rest with "garbage characters". I have tried experimenting with creating duplicate paragraph formats and giving them different names. And some names work better than others.

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          Winfried RengCommunity Expert
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          November 21, 2023

          The Unicode character for 8203 is something from the Chinese/Japanese/Korean universe. Unlikely that your bullet or a tab character is converted to this.

          The bullet is still there. So the bullet is not converted to something else.

          I would test another regular character from a Unicode font for your bullet and for the tab.

          Or delete the bullet or the tab. Is this code still there?

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