RE: Changes in MIF output in FM 8.0

[Andrew Dugas <Andrew -dot- Dugas -at- riverbed -dot- com>]

Yes, but ePub seems to default to the v8 MIF when generating.

Andrew Dugas
Sr. Writer, Technical Publications
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Riverbed Technology
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Subject: Re: Changes in MIF output in FM 8.0

Yeah, that's the new Unicode encoding. Is there a "MIF 7" or "MIF Classic" (non-Unicode) choice in the Save As options?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Dugas<Andrew -dot- Dugas -at- riverbed -dot- com> wrote:
> We've seen some issues re: character encoding.
>
> Right now, we are concerned that the MIF output is different in Frame 8.0, necessitating a character encoding config change in ePub (9.2.x).
>
> For example, the copyright symbol is output differently:
>
> >From Frame 7 MIF
>      <String `\xa9  1999-2005 '>
>
> >From Frame 7 MIF
>   <String `© 1999-2005 '>
>
> What we'd REALLY like is to use pure ASCII because we foresee other problems down the road....
>
> Has anyone wrestled with this?
>
> TIA
>
> Andrew Dugas
> Sr. Writer, Technical Publications
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