Escaping non UTF8 characters

By default non UTF8 characters are not automatically escaped:

• When using the GUI interface (see GUI interface)
• When using the command-line starting parameters (see command-line)
• When using the configuration file (see escapeNonUTF8)

However, it is possible to force the user to escape non UTF8 characters (for example French accented characters) by using the standard XML syntax, for example: &#A0;.

In the configuration file

This is configured by the escapeNonUTF8 property. For example:

   escapeNonUTF8=true

On the command-line

This is configured by the escapeNonUTF8 command-line property. For example:

      java -jar docGenerator.jar -input=wiki/input -output=wiki/output -escapeNonUTF8=false

Encoding

The generator will try to guess the encoding of each input file to decode correctly non ASCII characters. Please note that there is no way other than guessing to get the encoding of a text file, hence it is always better to encode article files directly in UTF-8.

Note that in XML files, it is possible to set explicitly the encoding of the file by setting the XML declaration. For example:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Example

The following text:

      this is a téxt

will have the following result in the HTML file:
this is a téxt