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A^ symbol before many special characters
We are creating Microsoft HTML Help CHM output from a
RoboHelp 7 HTML project (in English). This problem does not happen
for other outputs such as FlashHelp, WebHelp, and Printed
Documentation.
This happens with font Arial and Arial Unicode MS.
Some special characters appear fine in RH7HTML, but in the output CHM file a A^ (a capital letter A with a roof on it: Â) appears in front of each of them.
This happens for (for example): copyright, registered, mu, plus-minus, one-quarter, one-half. However, this does not happen for Greek characters and mathematical symbols.
We entered all of these special characters by copying them from Microsoft Word, where they were inserted by Insert > Symbol, where the font was "(normal text)".
Of course, we would not expect that all of Word's special characters appear in HTML output, but we do not know why that A^ character appears. In addition, we might expect it to appear in all HTML output, but it appears only in the CHM files.
Anyhow, this was fine until recently, when this suddenly started happening. We are not aware of any particular changes with RH and our project that could have triggered this.
Out of curiosity, I will paste our list of tested special characters here (just wondering how that will show up in the topic):
©®Âμ±°¼½¾×÷ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜαβγδεζηθικλμ≤≥∞Σ⅓⅔⅛⅜⅝⅞∫≈≠≡√
Thanks a lot for any advice.
This happens with font Arial and Arial Unicode MS.
Some special characters appear fine in RH7HTML, but in the output CHM file a A^ (a capital letter A with a roof on it: Â) appears in front of each of them.
This happens for (for example): copyright, registered, mu, plus-minus, one-quarter, one-half. However, this does not happen for Greek characters and mathematical symbols.
We entered all of these special characters by copying them from Microsoft Word, where they were inserted by Insert > Symbol, where the font was "(normal text)".
Of course, we would not expect that all of Word's special characters appear in HTML output, but we do not know why that A^ character appears. In addition, we might expect it to appear in all HTML output, but it appears only in the CHM files.
Anyhow, this was fine until recently, when this suddenly started happening. We are not aware of any particular changes with RH and our project that could have triggered this.
Out of curiosity, I will paste our list of tested special characters here (just wondering how that will show up in the topic):
©®Âμ±°¼½¾×÷ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜαβγδεζηθικλμ≤≥∞Σ⅓⅔⅛⅜⅝⅞∫≈≠≡√
Thanks a lot for any advice.
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