FM 8 Problem with diacritical marks in index

Question

I have text in Latvian using Times new Roman Baltic fonts with items marked for inclusion in the index.
When an index is generated, the index automatically is generated using Times New Roman fonts and the diacritics are wrong. Changing the font to Times New Roman Baltic does not correct this problem.
I have specified the Group Titles sort order with letter groups, however, they do not sort properly.
e.g. A;Â is specified in the sort order, but the index displays only the group title A and includes the â terms under it.
I have set up the identical Index specification that I was using in Framemaker 7, but am unable to get correct results in FM8

Answer 1

Sveiks Ansi,<br /><br />With FM 8, you can't use the code-page specific registry instances of<br />a WGL truetype font. You either have to use a specific code-page<br />encoded font, such as the Tilde Baltic versions, or re-map the<br />specific latvian code-page characters from their WinBaltic CP1257<br />settings to their unicode values.<br /><br />The remapping can be done relatively easily using a text editor or a<br />grep-like tool (e.g. Search & Replace, TextPipePro, WinGrep, etc.) on<br />a v.7 MIF version of the FM file (this is important, since FM8 gives<br />you a choice of the MIF versions that you can save as). Search for the<br />FM hex values and replace these with the required unicode value, e.g.<br />zcaron (ANSI 253 in the CP1257 codepage) is \xca in the FM hex coding<br />and needs to be \u017e in unicode. You can use Windows Charmap<br />function to get the 4-character unicode values (but ignore the<br />hex-value reported).<br /><br />You can also do this "re-mapping" using FM's find/change (again look<br />for the \x  hexcodes and replace with unicode \u values), but it's<br />tedious.<br /><br />You also need to change the font from the Times New Roman Baltic to<br />just Times New Roman.<br /><br />Note: for the MIF route, you also *must* change the initial<br /><MIFFILE...> statement to show as an 8.00 version for this to work<br />properly, otherwise if FM re-imports this as a v.7 MIF it will not<br />honour the unicode mappings.<br /><br />Once you've got everything converted to unicode values, then<br />specifying the group sort orders of the index should also work<br />properly.<br /><br />Yes, I know, it's a real PITA working with legacy codepage-specific<br />documents in FM8.<br /><br />- Arnis