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latin capital letter d with stroke error

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
July 24, 2025
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I was working in Sturctured FrameMaker (DITA) and encountered an issue, so I wanted to share it to see if anyone has had a similar experience. After entering Latin capital letter D with stroke and saving the file, reopening it changes the character to Latin small letter d with stroke. Could anyone help me understand the cause of this?

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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The first thing I would check is your structapps file, where you'll have options for declaring SGML entities like the character you describe. There are multiple ways to do this, including default processing (seems not to work for you) and SGML entity declarations.

I recall you can also use read/write rules to manage this.

Can you find the SGML entity you're looking for in your currently defined SGML entity declaration files?

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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근성5EE9Author

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Thank you for your advice

However, I don’t believe any modifications are necessary, as I haven’t found any issues in either the isolat2.ent or iso-lat2.ent file.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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Those iso entity files are one way to declare character entities. If they aren't working, then other things in the Edd dtd or strictly are superseding that.

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Winfried Reng

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Hi,

Yes. Strange.

What's the font which you use? Possibly this font does not support this character Ð.

And what's your FrameMaker version/update?

Best regards, Winfried

Bob_Niland

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Is any Character Format applied?

It might also be worthwhile to copy the two out of the resulting PDF or HTML page, and use one of the code converter sites to report its actual codepoint. What would be expected is:
U+00D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH
U+00F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH

But if this is, for example, a legacy FM document originally using \x notation and a latin extensions codepage/overlay font, various scenarios might apply.

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근성5EE9Author

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Thank you for your response. However, I don't believe this issue is related to a Character Format. I have tested this in FM2019, FM2020, and FM2022. Also, anyone can reproduce this by simply inserting the Latin capital letter D with stroke using the character map, saving the file as XML, and then reopening it — the behavior I described will be clearly visible. For this reason, I believe this is a bug in FrameMaker.

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