According to Duane Winner: > I am trying to determine wether or not an issue that we are having with > doc2html.pl is related to different versions of perl or not. > > We are successfully using doc2html on a FreeBSD (4.9-RELEASE) box that > has Perl version 5.005_03. > > If I type: > -su-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/htdig/doc2html.pl "/usr/local/data/8web.doc" > "application/msword" > > It returns to me html output just as it should. > > But on a RedHat 9 box this does not work. This box has Perl v5.8.0. With > doc2html configured the same way, I get: > ! UNABLE to convert > > > One of our software engineers took a look at this and this what he > found: > "The comparison at about line 405 fails because the "magics" do not > match. The mimi types do match." > > Is this an issue with Perl and the different versions we are running? Or > is it something else? Something we missed, possibly? > > Thanks for any input.
I believe there are issues with Perl on Red Hat 9, with all sorts of regular expressions failing, when using a UTF-8 based locale, as Red Hat 9 configures by default. Red Hat tried to patch Perl to support UTF-8 character sets, but obviously didn't get it quite right. If you try setting LANG=en_US or any non-utf8 locale, before running htdig (or rundig), then I expect doc2html.pl will work better. htdig doesn't use the LANG variable itself, as it uses the "locale" configuration attribute instead (see http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#locale), but it will pass it on to any program it calls up, including the external_parsers. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
