Issue 32530: How ro fix the chm encoding in Non western european codepage(cp1252) Windows (original) (raw)

Start from Python 3.6.3, the offical chm document is full of corrputed character.

Example: the first page which is What’s New In Python 3.6 ’is 0x92 in cp1252 and will not display correctly in non western european code page. An another example is 9.1. numbers — Numeric abstract base classes — is 0x97.

The Microsoft HTML Help does not recognise <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=cp1252" />.

Then, how to solve it?

According to this https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sandcastle/2007/09/29/chm-localization-and-unicode-issues-dbcsfix-exe/

I recommand to use the following command to make the hhc encoding chm as cp1252:

SbAppLocale.exe $(LCID) "%PROGRAMFILES%\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe" Path\Project.HHp

I donnot know to how to submit patch and it seems quite easy to fix by offical windows developer.