Wrong characters conversion in Messages

[mbodlak]

Hi there

I am trying to convert HTML document using iSiloX for Windows and iSiloXC for Linux. I have encontered strange conversion issue with Messages.

The source file is HTML with specified encoding Windows-1250. The .ixl file is common Unicode XML file. The strings entered in the <Messages> section (author, book title) are shown wrongly in generated book (in WIM viewer and Windows viewer), although the book content is OK.

In iSiloX, when I update those strings in document properties, close that dialog and open it again, Czech accented characters are shown in "unrecognized Unicode" way - as two characters.

Since it is present in both linux and Windows versions, it seems like some problem with used XML parser.

[iSilo]

Currently only ASCII characters are supported in the messages. The behavior is undefined if you use any non-ASCII characters.

[mbodlak]

Thanks for answer.

Will you update this erroneous behavior?

At least for UTF-8 output encoding... (Anyway, the XML declaration at the beginning of the configuration file says that it is UTF-8 and you enable UTF-8 output encoding so there is apparently no problem with unicode itself nor with transcoding).

It's a pity if you allow text conversion for various languages and do not allow using of special characters from those languages in book meta information.

[iSilo]

Yes, we intend to update it so that the meta-data gets encoded the same as the document.

We'll see whether we can work it into the next update or two.

[mbodlak]

Thank you and please, when updating your desktop software, don't forget to update also the linux version

Have a nice day.