FM to HTML conversion issues

[Will Sansbury]

I don't use Framemaker much anymore, but I do know a thing or two about
HTML.... so maybe this will help.

Are you seeing the correct characters when you view the source of the HTML
files? If yes, then the problem is with the character encoding in the HTML
files. If you change to the appropriate charset, the browser should render
the documents correctly.

This link might help: http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html.en

If it's jumbled in the source, too, then Framemaker is to blame and I
wouldn't know what to tell you.

Hope that helps!
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Will Sansbury
Author-it Certified Consultant
<www.willsansbury.com>
 

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> I am trying to convert FrameMaker files to HTML as part of a 
> major project to upload files for display to our customers. 
> For some reason, the saving of our FrameMaker files to HTML 
> only seems to work with the files in English and other 
> Western European languages. The HTML files for the Eastern 
> European (Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Hungarian) languages 
> and Turkish substitute Western European characters wherever 
> the language-specific characters should be, and as a result, 
> the HTML files don't look right. Concerning our Cyrillic and 
> Greek files, the HTML comes out looking like garbage. Does 
> any one know of any possible fixes for this problem?
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