Touch-ups needed for the virtio csd01 and csprd01 file "front matter"

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:37:07PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 18:02 +0000, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:27:29PM -0500, Paul Knight wrote: > >
> Hi Michael and all, > > >  > >
> I believe that the PDF is fine, but the HTML contains the non-ascii > >
> representations of ligatures, instead of the characters "fi" and "ff". > >  >
> Yes, html seems problematic. >
> I didn't find a nice way to disable this for HTML yet. >
> Give this one a try: >
> 8<

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>From 36edea8583bd2b3a572101f3ea57aca25634dcfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Pawel Moll <>
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:35:30 +0000
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Subject: [PATCH] html: Convert ligatures into normal ASCII characters >
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <> > ---
>  unicode.4hf
5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 unicode.4hf >
> diff --git a/unicode.4hf b/unicode.4hf
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b7e69b2 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/unicode.4hf > @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ > +'&#xFB01;' ''  'fi'  '' > +'&#xFB02;' ''  'fl'  '' > +'&#xFB00;' ''  'ff'  '' > +'&#xFB03;' ''  'ffi' '' > +'&#xFB04;' ''  'ffl' '' > --
> 1.8.3.2
> 8<

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> Seems to work for me, although I don't know exactly why (I have a
> feeling, but no proof ;-) >
> Pawel  Doesn't seem to work for me although the file is actually opened and read (checked with strace).  Because of some broken-ness in Fedora htlatex replaces them with  instead of proper unicode characters, that's probably why.  Any idea how to debug that problem?