[tex4ht] [bug #241] grave accent letter ` (hex 60) changes to left single quotation mark (hex 0xE2 0x80 0x98)

[Michal Hoftich]

>
> Thanks Michal. But there is still an issue. This is what I tried:
>
> Using \usepackage{upquote}, does indeed correct the problem for tex4ht,
> but _only_ for the verbatim text in the above example, not for
> the normal text.
>
> Yes, the normal text, appears the same in the pdf as it is on the
> web page, but the encoding can't be the same. I found this, when I
> copied the normal text out from pdf to text file and looked at
> the hex encoding using
>
>> xxd -p foo.txt
>

This is maybe caused by PDF viewer you use, I don't get graves using
Acrobat Reader or pdftotext.

Grave character is used to input quotes, ie. ``hello'' will print
correct English quotes, so it would be error to get anything else in a
text. You can use \`{} command to get grave, or better

   \newcommand\textgrave{\`{}}

and then use \textgrave in the document. this works in pdflatex as
well as in tex4ht.

>
> It was the hex60, which is what I wanted, same as the input.
>
> But when I copied the normal text from the web page, and looked at
> its hex encoding, it was the left single quotation mark. which
> causes problem.
>
> So, the encoding inside pdf can't be the same as the HTML generated for
> the normal text. Even though they do appear to be the same (left single
> quotation) when looking at them on the screen.
>
> For pdf, I did not even need the \usepackage{upquote}, and was able
> to copy both the normal and the verbatim text, and they both came out
> as grave accent.
> But for htlatex, it did fix the verbatim part. Not the normal
> text part. This was the same result as when using the patched
> cmtt.htf I was testing with.
>

> So, there is still a problem, with normal text. For now, I will use
> verbatim with \usepackage{upquote} to avoid this problem. But for
> normal text, I think there is still a problem, since it does not
> work like with pdflatex or lualatex.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

you're welcome :)

Michal
> --Nasser
>