Changing coding from UTF-8 to ANSI

[Guest]

Hi all,

in one project an older RoboHep version was in use until now that produced ANSI-coded HTML files (Latin-1 I think). The webhelp output was published on a server and everything worked fine. Now after upgrade to RoboHelp 9 the HTML files are coded with UTF-8 and the server application cannot display this correctly (particularly German umlauts are scrambled). Is there any way to change the coding used by RoboHelp? Are you aware of a script or tool that could be used to manually convert the Webhelp output back to ANSI (i.e. all HTML files in the subfolders of the output folder)?

Robert

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

You can use LibIconv for that: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ Convert from UTF-8 to iso-8859-1. It's a command line tool, so you will need some kind of script to mass convert all your topics.

But can't you reconfigure the server application to work correctly with UTF-8? Otherwise you will need to convert all your output files every time you create an output.

Greet,

Willam

[Peter Grainge]

The webhelp generation dialog allows you to change the encoding.

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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

[Guest]

Thanks for the ideas!

Robert

[Willam van Weelden]

@Peter: Nah, that's way too easy. Can't believe I missed that

[Guest]

Nah, that's way too easy. Can't believe I missed that

Yep that did the trick. It's a new feature and I did not notice it yet.