An ">" symbol at the top of each JavaHelp page?

[maarefin]

Hello all,

I have generated JavaHelp off an imported Word 2007 document on a Windows 7 box.  Interestingly, an unsightly ">" (the greater than sign) is appearing at beginning of each help page when ported to my Fedora 13/Linux box.  The preview of the JavaHelp on the Windows 7 machine (where I generated the JavaHelp) does not show this ">" at the top of each help page.

Any idea why the unexpected ">" is showing up at the top of each help page on Fedora/Linux box?

Thanks.

- Arefin

[maarefin]

After searching the web, this '>' at the beginning of each JavaHelp topic (.htm files) might be an encoding issue.  RH9 is generating UTF-8 encoding and my Fedora/Linux box has LANG=en_US.UTF-8 setting. They seem to be the same, but who knows!

Thanks for any further hints.

- Arefin

[Peter Grainge]

Look at the fields in the SSL dialogs. There is an option to select different encoding. Maybe that will help?

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[mrtsai]

I had a similar issue where the ">" sign was showing up at the beginning of each page in JavaHelp.  The fix was to delete everything out of the directory I was compiling to (or compile the jar file to a new, empty folder). 

[maarefin]

mrtsai,

Thanks very much for your help, but unfortunately it did not solve the problem.  I generated everything to a brand new folder, but sill an ">" shows up at the begining of each JavaHelp page.  As I said before, this does not happen on the Windows 7 system where I generate the JavaHelp, but it happens when I port the help to my Fedora/Linux box.

[mrtsai]

Are you using the same version of Java and JavaHelp on the Linux box that you are on the Windows box?  I still haven't figured out how to determine which version RoboHelp uses.  These are the steps I took to solve it:

1. Installed Java version 6 (latest version)

2. Installed JavaHelp 2.0

3. Reinstalled RoboHelp so upon generating JavaHelp it would prompt me to point to the Java and JavaHelp versions I wanted to use for the compile.

4. Compiled to a new/clean folder.

[maarefin]

I have jdk1.5.0_22 on both the Windows and Linux box.  My installation of RoboHelp does not ask for Java version, but I have JAVA_HOME (system and user variables) set to jdk1.5.0_22 installation, which is used in my Java project on Linux.  What version of RoboHelp you have? Mine is 9.

[mrtsai]

I'm also using version 9.  I didn't have to set the JAVA_HOME variable.  After I reinstalled RoboHelp and compiled my JavaHelp project for the very first time, it asked me where my Java and JavaHelp were installed (in two separate prompts after I clicked Save and Generate).  After that, the > at the top of each file went away.  However, when I did a search, it was still displaying the title of each of my search results as:

10 > >

5 > >

2 > >

When I compiled to a clean directory, this was fixed and again displayed the actual page title instead of the > symbol. 

[maarefin]

My installation of RH9 did not ask for Java and JavaHelp locations because I have JAVA_HOME and JHHOME system variables already defined!  Well, please let me know if you find something, or I will post of anything I find.  This is not a serious issue for my app.  Thanks a lot.