hhc Windows help file does not process quotes or double quotes well

Question

I noticed that when compiling a chm file, if the tree contains any articles that have a double quote in its title such as How to use the "?" correctly, it won't process the tree properly. In the actual help file, the title would actually read How to use the.

Is there a problem with Windows Help Files, in its ability to process quotes? Or, do I have to specify character encoding somewhere to get around this issue?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Afaik topic titles are wchars in the index, and the rest is simply html. So probably a limitation of the CHM compiler and not of the format.

Unfortunately, there is not much that you can do about that.

OTOH html afaik requires " to be replaced by & quot; did you try that ?

P.s. the ampersand and quote must touch of course, but the forum software would then turn it into a "