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and subject line Re: Bug#516694: html2text: fails to convert valid html
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Package: html2text
Version: 1.3.2a-11
Severity: normal
Hello,
html2text fails to convert a file/web page that it used to convert in
version 1.3.2a-3.
The file can be obtained from
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes2.html
The command issued was:
html2text -nobs -style compact -ascii -width 79 -o bugfixes2.txt bugfixes2.html
The error message is:
Input recoding failed due to invalid input sequence. Unconverted part of text
follows.
��→ /usr/bin/t4ht
Below, use ‘/usr/bin/’ (without quotes) — or whatever you got as
...
A copy of this file is is used during the build of "tex4ht" which is currently
failing to build properly due to this bug.
Regards,
Kapil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages html2text depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
html2text recommends no packages.
Versions of packages html2text suggests:
pn curl | wget <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.3.2a-12
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Thanks for the rapid response. I checked your fix and it works.
> "html2text" no longer exits with error for the original command line.
>
> However, there still seems to be some sort of bug as it gives the same
> error message if the "-ascii" option is dropped from the command
> line.
>
> At the same time, I read the man page more carefully (as I should
> have done before filing the bug :) ) and found that "html2text" is
> not meant to do a reasonable job for html4 or xhtml. The doc in
> question _is_ xhtml so I suppose I should really be looking at
> a different solution for my package.
You can also try new '-utf8' or '-nometa' options, though I don't know
whether they have something to work in xhtml case or not.
New version with the fix has been uploaded recently.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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