2009/12/29 Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org>: > 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. >
vilistextum seems to handle utf-8 characters just fine when built with the --enabe-multibyte option. Unfortunately, the package in Debian is built without this option. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
