Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 21 Mapping text formats to HTML/XML > 21.6 Mapping special characters > 21.6.1 Understanding how Mif2Go represents characters
Mif2Go has two internal ways to represent text: as printable strings, or as single characters. For compactness, Mif2Go uses the single-character form for all of the following:
Mapped entity references use Unicode
The high ASCII characters, which are not in the
printable set, are heavily used in Windows. The ASCII codes for these
characters are not valid in Unicode. However, the same glyphs occur in
Unicode at other code points, so Mif2Go first maps them to their Unicode counterparts.
For example, a bullet character in your FrameMaker document becomes numeric
entity reference •
in HTML. The ASCII
decimal code for a bullet is 149, whereas the Unicode decimal code for
a bullet is 8226. This mapping is applied only to text in the single-character
form.
If you specify the following option, Mif2Go omits some high ASCII characters and maps others to printable characters:
See §13.16.2 Replacing high ASCII characters for W3C validation.