[publican-list] Creating a book in Turkish language

[Ruediger Landmann]

  On 08/03/2010 07:48 PM, Oguz Yilmaz wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have just installed publican and tried to creae a book by following a guide.
> publican create --name Test_Book --lang tr-TR
>
> Note: When, I have used Turkihs chars in the name of the book, It has
> warned me about the name of the book for including chars other then
> latin set.

Hi Oguz!

One of Publican's key features is to produce RPM packages of books, and 
Publican uses the title of the book to create the RPM file name. File 
names of RPM packages can only have ASCII characters in them. However, 
you can still set the correct Turkish characters in the title like this:

1. Create the book with an ASCII version of the title:

publican create --name Ag_Yonetimi --lang tr-TR

2. Edit the Book_Info.xml file to include the correct Turkish title:

<title>Ağ Yönetimi</title>

3. Edit the publican.cfg file to point to the ASCII version of the 
title. Insert the line:

docname: Ag_Yonetimi

You can now build the book as normal and the title will be correct.

> Then I have just compiled the book with success.
> publican build --formats html --langs tr-TR --config publican.cfg
>
> When I change a chapter.xml to include some Turkish chars (8859-9,
> win-1254), it has given an error and exit during building the book.

Publican uses the UTF-8 character set. Unpredictable things might happen 
if you use a different encoding.

I have tested a book with some paragraphs in Turkish encoded in UTF-8, 
and the book builds fine on Fedora; I believe that with UTF-8 encoding, 
it should build fine on Windows too, but I don't have a Windows machine 
to test.  You can see the sample output here:

http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/tr-TR/

You can see the paragraphs of Turkish here:

http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/tr-TR/chap-Ag_Yonetimi-Test_Chapter.html

Please let us know if this works for you.

Kind regards
Rüdiger