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
Previous Topic:
18.11.6 Producing
a list of aliases and associated topic titles
Next Topic:
18.12.1 Converting
from Unicode to Windows code pages
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
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