Michal Suchanek wrote: > The html2text tool cannot handle multibyte charactes such as UTF-8. > Since UTF-8 is the default encoding on Debian this tool is pretty much > useless. If html converter is really required for debhelper a working > one should be chosen.
I looked at vilistextum but it doesn't even handle converting ü right. Possibly because of #532494. The only other real option is lynx, but its text is optimised to be read in the browser; -dump can be fairly substandard as plain text. The wontfix tag seems to be used in #545695 to mean that the maintainer is not capable of fixing the bug, not that it should not be fixed. So, if you want to improve this situation, fixing html2text (or vilistextum) seems likely to be more productive than filing bugs on debhelper. All I can do after all, is deprecate and eventually remove the feature, or make debhelper use some nonexistant better program. -- see shy jo
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