DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Is it possible in DocBook?

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ Roman Suzi <rnd@onego.ru> was heard to say:
| On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Norman Walsh wrote:
| 
| >Ok, it seems that jade has trouble translating the SGML SDATA entities
| >for Cyrillic into actual output. But it (seems to) work fine if the
| >entities are replaced with Unicode character references. (Why has no
| >one reported this before?)
| >
| >I'll fix it for the next release.
| 
| Is it sufficient to write &#1057;&#1083;&#1077;&#1076;
| instead of &Scy;&lcy;&iecy&dcy; ...
| in the dbl1ru.ent for it to work properly?

No, you have to write \U-hex1;\U-hex2;\U-hex3;, etc. I was/am going
to write a perl script to do the conversion based on what's in
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/ent/iso-cyr1.ent, but I
don't know when I'll get to it (this week is going to be bad).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Exuberance is beauty.--Blake
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