[ docbook-Bugs-1509786 ] "can't find numbered character" warning for non-ascii chars

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Bugs item #1509786, was opened at 06/21/06 01:27
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Category: XSL
Group: output: manpages
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Sebastian DrÃ¶ge (slomosnail)
Assigned to: Michael(tm) Smith (xmldoc)
Summary: "can't find numbered character" warning for non-ascii chars

Initial Comment:
Hi,
when generating a manpage from the attached docbook xml
file with 
/usr/bin/xsltproc --nonet -o fatsort.1
/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl
fatsort.1.xml

man reports some warnings:
fatsort.1:94: warning: can't find numbered character 246
fatsort.1:100: warning: can't find numbered character 246

(run LANG=C man -l fatsort.1 1> /dev/null to see this)

Bye

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Comment By: Michael(tm) Smith (xmldoc)
Date: 07/03/06 00:47

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Hi Sebastian,

As I guess you probably know, that roff warning about 
"character 246" is caused by the character Ã¶ (Unicode name: 
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS) in your name. The 
Unicode and ISO-8859-1 decimal value for that character is 
246 (hex F6).

The 1.68.1 stylesheets are not capable of processing that 
character. Since the time of the 1.68.1 release, I have 
added support for correctly handling the full set of ISO-
8859-1 characters, plus many more. But you will need to 
upgrade to either the 1.70.1 or 1.69.1 stylesheets to get 
that support. You can download those releases from either 
of the following locations:

  https://sourceforge.net/project/
showfiles.php?group_id=21935&package_id=16608
  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/

Also, you will need to feed the stylesheet param/value 
"man.charmap.use.subset 0" to xsltproc in order to have it 
process that character correctly; like this:

  xsltproc --stringparam man.charmap.use.subset 0 \
  /path/to/1.69.1/manpages/docbook.xsl fatsort.1.xml

That causes the "full" version of the manpages "character 
map" to be enabled, which in turn will cause the "LATIN 
SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS" character to be converted to 
the string "\(:o", which is the roff escape that it 
corresponds to.

Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you.

  --Mike

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Comment By: Sebastian DrÃ¶ge (slomosnail)
Date: 06/21/06 01:29

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This is with the docbook XSL stylesheets version 1.68.1 btw

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