18.12 Generating HTML Help
in non-Western languages
HTML Help does not support Unicode well, even in the
topic pane where it might appear to do so. Topic content is rendered
by the Internet Explorer HTML engine, so the topic pages themselves could
use UTF-8. However, the Search function works only on characters that
are in the Windows code pages that HTML Help supports. For example, English
text in a Japanese file can be found, but Search will not find any Japanese
content.
In this section:
§18.12.1
Converting from Unicode to Windows code pages
§18.12.2
Specifying locale and language for HTML Help
§18.12.3
Preventing inclusion of Unicode numeric references
See also:
§16.5.8.3
Specifying index sort type and locale
§18.3.5 Deciding
whether to compile HTML Help
§18.13.3 Compiling
in a different language
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Parent Topic: 18. Generating Microsoft
HTML Help
Sibling Topics:
18.1 Understanding
how DITA2Go produces HTML Help
18.2 Understanding
why Unicode is not the answer
18.3 Setting
up an HTML Help project
18.4 Customizing HTML Help display features
18.5 Creating
pop-ups for HTML Help
18.6 Creating links and hypertext jumps in
HTML Help
18.7 Creating
related-topic links for HTML Help
18.8 Using
secondary windows in HTML Help
18.9 Generating
contents and index for HTML Help
18.10 Providing full-text
search (FTS) for HTML Help
18.11 Setting up CSH
for HTML Help
18.13 Compiling
and testing HTML Help
18.14 Mapping
and merging CHM files