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snevhead
snevhead
Inspiring
October 27, 2015
Question

Umlauts in HTML5 file names

  • October 27, 2015
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I generate HTML5 from FrameMaker 12 (NOT RoboHelp) and in my German docs, headings with umlauts lead to file names with umlauts, which is a problem for our system.

Is there any way to supress the umlauts in the file names? I have my publishing settings configured as follows:

Topic Name Pattern: <$paratext>

Output

Language: German

Encoding: Unicode (UTF8 without BOM)

thanks for any help,

s.

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salynaz
salynaz
Participant
May 9, 2018

Hi, I have the same issue with FrameMaker 2017. It would be great if FM could convert umlauts in headings into ae/oe/ue for filenames. Is there a way to do this?

Regards,

Stephanie

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2018

Not built in - you'd have to run some script on your content (or a copy of your content) to do the find and replace action before publishing.

salynaz
salynaz
Participant
May 9, 2018

Thanks, Jeff. The problem with this is that the umlauts are still needed in the main text -- they should only be converted to create clean ASCII filenames. Maybe we can create a script to replace them in the generated files (i.e. after publishing).

Regards,

Stephanie

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