Accented characters in Help browser

[grsbanks]

f those don't work either, I'd start to suspect that they're using a font, or a text renderer, that doesn't support accents.

It's the text renderer. As I said earlier, it only implements a small subset of the HTML entities and unicode characters.

[Thomas Okken]

f those don't work either, I'd start to suspect that they're using a font, or a text renderer, that doesn't support accents.

It's the text renderer. As I said earlier, it only implements a small subset of the HTML entities and unicode characters.

No, you mentioned limitations in the HTML parser. Those should be possible to work around with numeric entities (assuming those are supported, but since that's really simple, there's no excuse not to). Limitations in the renderer are a different issue.

[Walter]

f those don't work either, I'd start to suspect that they're using a font, or a text renderer, that doesn't support accents.

It's the text renderer. As I said earlier, it only implements a small subset of the HTML entities and unicode characters.

No, you mentioned limitations in the HTML parser. Those should be possible to work around with numeric entities (assuming those are supported, but since that's really simple, there's no excuse not to). Limitations in the renderer are a different issue.

@grsbanks: We're dealing with math-tech problems. Could we - please - agree on using proper terminology? Is it a parser or a renderer you were talking about?

[dlachieze]

Well it seems to be both: é is displayed as “é” and é is displayed as “?”, so a different handling. I’ve tried the different suggestions from Thomas but none is working.
Not a big issue anyway, I’m already glad to have an embedded equivalent of the HP-42S QRF (which btw was only released in English). But if someday the support for other languages can be added that would be nice to have.

Side note: grsbanks is and has been an invaluable link between us - the DM42 users – and the SwissMicros team as well as a great contributor to the DM42, however he is not the software developer, so I’m not expecting him to know everything about the software implementation, especially for the help feature that is not a core feature and was released just a few weeks ago with the production units. A little vocabulary forgiveness would help keeping this forum friendliness tone, we are all humans after all …

[Thomas Okken]

I played around with the help file a bit, and here's what I found:

1. The help file parser does support UTF-8. I didn't try ISO-8859-1 since the help file uses characters that aren't in ISO-8859-1, like the up- and down-pointing triangles.
2. The help file parser does not support numeric entities, neither decimal nor hexadecimal. I tried Σ and Σ for Σ, and they appeared as Σ and Σ, i.e. they weren't even parsed.

So, é and é being rendered as ? is entirely due to limitations in the renderer. If é weren't recognized, it would show up as é, not ?.

[ijabbott]

So, é and é being rendered as ? is entirely due to limitations in the renderer. If é weren't recognized, it would show up as é, not ?.

Did you try é? dlachieze wrote above that it was rendered as "é".

[Thomas Okken]

So, é and é being rendered as ? is entirely due to limitations in the renderer. If é weren't recognized, it would show up as é, not ?.

Did you try é? dlachieze wrote above that it was rendered as "é".

I did not -- I misread Didier's post and thought he said that é showed up as ?. My mistake.