[Docutils-users] Re: DocFactory / Out of range 256 Error

[David G. <go...@py...>]

I thought I replied to this earlier, but I don't see it in the
archives, so this may be a duplicate.

Pierre-Yves Delens wrote:
 > My Docfactory setting is on ISO-8859-1, and works fine for [accented
 > characters] etc.
 >
 > BUT I failed to find anything on the web about :
 > 	Out of  range 256 Error
 > when processing in DocFactory a document containing some special
 > characters copied-pasted from Word documents or HTML or RTF messages
 > : [oe ligature? 2 chars], special apostrophes, special '-' or
 > quotes, carets, [copyright sign], [registered sign]

ISO-8859-1 is a limited encoding, only handling Unicode code points up
to 255.  Some of the characters you show above are beyond this range.

I'd guess your input encoding should be a Windows-specific code page,
cp-1252 or something similar.  This link has info:
<http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html>.

 > Setting Docfactory on UTF-8 or 16 seems not to help.

For input or output?

 > Are such strings supported by DocFactory, by Docutils standalone ?

All of Unicode is supported by Docutils.  You just have to get the
encodings right.

 > What should i do, better than detecting faulty characters prior to
 > F7-Processing, which is counterproductive ?

Determine what encoding your input text is really using.

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