I'd like first to share a solution for the index-encoding problem. You have to convert HHC, HHK, and HHP files from UTF-8 to ASCII, using any simple text editor. Replace the following line in the HHP file with the corresponding language definition: Language=0x409 English (United States) I wish if...

All modern browsers fully support unicode and UTF-8. Unfortunately, the Microsoft Html Help 1.x compiler and viewer (which are both more than 10 years old now and haven't been changed for many years) do not support unicode or UTF-8 encoding for the Table of Contents, Index or full text search (UTF...

The Microsoft Html Help 1.x compiler and viewer do not fully support unicode, so there is a option you need to set if you are creating content containing non-english characters. The option you need to set is the "Encoding" value in the Build Profile editor - set this to match the language you...

Maybe this is related to this post? http://www.innovasys.com/cs/forums/t/467.aspx However you wrote that it only affected plain HTML output, but I have problems with "non-english" characters (æøå) when generating a .chm file. It gets displayed as something like Ã,k instead. This is in the Contents...