Re: Two questions about HelpViewer

Hi Yavor,

On 2025-10-21 18:15:59 +0200 Yavor Doganov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Patrick Cardona wrote:
>> While working on a localized release of the User Guides I made first
>> in English to be read  within HelpViewer (i.e.: 'AGNoStep User 
>> Guide',
>> 'GWorkspace User Guide') I noted this issue: despite .xlp files are
>> known as xml format, UTF-8 characters are badly rendered.
> 
> See the Debian patch [1] to the helpviewer.app package.  Perhaps there
> is a better way, though, and that's one of the reasons why I haven't
> sent it to Riccardo yet.

Thank you: it is working. Well, a little heavy to apply while 
modifying a whole User Guide, but it really solved all my encoding 
issues.

> 
>> 2) What the Bookshelf button is expected to do? Opening a FileViewer
>> window in some place? How to set the path, while the 'preferences'
>> menu item is grayed? Is there a canonical place I should use to put
>> into .help files?
> 
> It's not implemented yet; I think it's supposed to show a list of all
> manuals installed (akin to info's dir file).
> 
> [1] 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/helpviewer.app/0.4-2/debian/patches/utf8-help.patch
> 
> 

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