What "standard ASCII characters" stands for in MIF reference?

[Guest]

Hello,

I am reading Mif reference from http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/mifreference/mifref.pdf​ and there is a sentence that says "because a MIF file can contain only standard ASCII characters and because of MIF parsing requirements, you must represent certain characters with backslash (\) sequences". When you open a mif file in notepad that has copyright character © in text, you can see it as is. So my question is which character set is used for writing MIF files, US_ASCII or some extension like ISO_8859?

Kind regards,

Zeljko

[Stefan-Gentz]

Hi,

this is only for the FrameMaker reserved characters.

You can use the Unicode hex notation or insert the characters directly. Like this:

<String `Руководство пользователя'>

or like this:

<String `\u0420 \u0443 \u043A \u043E \u0432 \u043E \u0434 \u0441 \u0442 \u0432 \u043E \u0020 \u043F \u043E \u043B \u044C \u0437 \u043E \u0432 \u0430 \u0442 \u0435 \u043B \u044F'>

(Please note the space between each Unicode definition.)

[Lynne A. Price]

Zeljko,

   The section you quoted does refer to the ASCII character set several times. However, the section on "MIF data items" defines a string to be "Left quotation mark ( ` ), zero or more standard ASCII characters (you can also include UTF-8 characters),

and a straight quotation mark ( ' )".

   I wonder if the references to ASCII are leftover from an earlier version of the MIF reference, before FM supported Unicode. Stefan, do you remember when MIF switched to UTF-8? Was it in FM8 which introduced FM support, or in FM9?

     --Lynne