Hello Kevin, Kevin Ryde wrote: > Package: html2text > Version: 1.3.2a-11 > Severity: wishlist > > For the output coding it'd be good not to use LC_CTYPE and setlocale, > but instead some separate command line option etc. Use of LC_CTYPE and setlocale was added for sole purpose to output the text in the terminal encoding. Once you want to doing some more complicated things with recoding, I suggest you using iconv utility in the shell pipe, following the Unix-way.
> With setlocale the possible charsets are limited to those for which a > locale has been created (/etc/locale.gen), and you have the problem of > finding one with the charset you want. For now, I think that adding one more option for recoding isn't worth the consequences. Can you do what you want using iconv after html2text? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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