RE: Winddings, symbol etc

Hi Jon,

Windows XP
FOP
Saxon parser
RTF documents using my own RTF to XSL converter (still in development). 

Below is an example of the xslfo I am ouputting:

<fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" text-align="left">128   
Ђ</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" 
text-align="left">129   Ѓ</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" 
font-size="11" text-align="left">130   ‚</fo:block><fo:block 
font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" text-align="left">131   
ѓ</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" 
text-align="left">132   „</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" 
font-size="11" text-align="left">133   …</fo:block><fo:block 
font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" text-align="left">134   
†</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" 
text-align="left">135   ‡</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" 
font-size="11" text-align="left">136   €</fo:block><fo:block 
font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" text-align="left">137   
‰</fo:block><fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" 
text-align="left">138   Љ</fo:block>

And follow is the text extracted from the resulting pdf when the above xslfo is 
run through fop:

128 ?
129 ?
130 ?
131 ?
132 ?
133 ?
134 ?
135 ?
136 ?
137 ?
138 ?

The numbers on the left obviously represent the extended ascii table code.

When I ouput the following xslfo:
<fo:block font-family="Symbol" font-size="11" 
text-align="left">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</fo:block>

The pdf outputs ##########################

Apologies if I'm still not giving you the info you need.  I don't fully 
understand the process involved here.  I assumed that if pdf supports arial etc 
it would support the extended ascii codes.  Is someone able to advise me what 
is wrong with my xslfo code?

Thanks,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Gorman [mailto:jonathan(_dot_)gorman(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:43 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Winddings, symbol etc

Might also want to look into embedding the font.  This list 
isn't too active with the XSL-FO side of XSL, so I don't know 
how much help you can get there.  I'd check out the manual 
for whatever you're using (FOP, XEP) as these issues are 
pretty common.  It can be a pain dealing with character 
sets/fonts but perhaps someone else has better info.  As 
Geert mentioned, you are best off using the Unicode characters.

Of course, might be more helpful if you described the process 
and told us things like system environment, character sets of 
input, character sets of outputs,  documents, fonts tried, 
and xsl-fo processor used.

Jon Gorman

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