Current maven plugin of DocBook buidling doesn't support Chinese characters

Hi Daisy -
I'm not sure but you can look at the source code at

https://github.com/rackspace/clouddocs-maven-plugin

Thanks for testing!

Hi, Anne

Thank you for responding. I checked the code. There is no way to configure font yet.

Do you know how to raise a request or send a bug to the development team of clouddocs-maven-plugin?

Daisy

Hi Daisy -
I subscribed Joe Savak, the product manager for the clouddocs-maven-plugin, to this bug. I'll check with him this week. So far we have been tracking their bugs here, though maybe we could start to use the Github issues for these specifics.
Thanks,
Anne

Thank you, Anne.

I will recommend to make the font as a config option, as there may be need
to associate a font with
a particular language/localization. I looked into the source code of this
maven plguin. It's possible
to make this change.

If Joe wants Chinese font files for testing, I'm glad to help.

Regards
Daisy

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> Title:
> Current maven plugin of DocBook buidling doesn't support Chinese
> characters
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> Status in OpenStack Manuals:
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> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to translate the manual documents into Chinese and built it
with:
> mvn generate-sources,
> then I found the html pages were built successfully. But in PDF
> document, the Chinese characters cannot be displayed correctly.
> ###### is showed in the place where Chinese characters are expected.
> There are some warning message in the console:
>
> WARN org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener.processEvent
> (LoggingEventListener.java:80) - Glyph "编" (0x7f16) not available
> in font "CartoGothicStd-Bold".
> WARN org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener.processEvent
> (LoggingEventListener.java:80) - Glyph "程" (0x7a0b) not available
> in font "CartoGothicStd-Bold".
> WARN org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener.processEvent
> (LoggingEventListener.java:80) - Glyph "该" (0x8be5) not available
> in font "CartoGothicStd-Book".
> WARN org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener.processEvent
> (LoggingEventListener.java:80) - Glyph "书" (0x4e66) not available
> in font "CartoGothicStd-Book".
>
> I think, this might be caused by the font setting in the maven plugin
> "clouddocs-maven-plugin". The font "CartoGothicStd-Book" is used but
> it cannot support Chinese characters. The same problem might occur to
> other languages too.
>
> I'm not able to find the introduction of this maven plugin by Google.
> Is it a way to configure the font setting by maven?
>
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We'll have to install the appropriate fonts in fop for this to work.

Hi, David

What is "fop"? You mean, if Chinese fonts are installed in my Ubuntu, this problem won't occur?

Daisy

Hi Daisy -
David has been working on 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT to enable the appropriate fonts.

He says:
"You can try this now (build a pdf where you have xml:lang="zh" on the
<book> element).

There's one thing I'll still fix (the nbsp character isn't in this
font and the xsls stick in nbsps, so I'll remove those)."

Since I don't have any Chinese language source docbook files, could you please test by changing your pom.xml to point to 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT here?

<plugin>
                <groupId>com.rackspace.cloud.api</groupId>
                <artifactId>clouddocs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <!-- here -->

and let us know how it goes! Be aware of the missing nbsp character.

Also, feel free to send me Chinese language files if you want me to test as well.

Thanks,
Anne

Yeah! It works wonderful!

Thank you, Anne and David.

Nice work!