Just checking on this - given that my final output is a webpage that is iso-8859-1 encoded, what advice is there for producing good output from mhonarc -scan ?
Michael On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:05:19PM -0500, Michael de Beer wrote: > > > However, when I do > > > shell> mhonarc -quiet -nolock -reverse -scan -outdir www/2005/02 > > > > > > It produces subject lines like > > > =?iso-8859-1?q?Norwegischer_Bischof_Gunnar_J=2E_St=E5lsett_feier?= > > > > > > That is not what I want -- I want it to produce the subject like the > > > mhonarc output pages. > > > -scan is for terminal-based examination of archive contents. > > Yes. > > > It does not invoke CHARSETCONVERTERS since CHARSETCONVERTERS is > > designed for conversion to HTML, not plain text. > > OK > > > Will you provide more information on how you utilize -scan output? > > It may help in determining what the best solution to your problem is. > > I use it to create a web page that has an index of the last 20 posts. > See http://www.wfn.org/ > > mhonarc -scan output is parsed and rewritten by a perl script > everytime there is a new post. > > Thanks for your advice, > > > BTW, if iso-8859-1 is the default encoding for the messages you > > archive, you may want to look at the DECODEHEADS resource. You could > > instruct mhonarc to decode the non-ASCII encoded text before storing > > the data in the archive. Therefore, when doing -scan, the non-encoded > > form the text will be shown. > > I'm not clear on this. Given that I'm creating a web page, > do you think this is the right way? > > Michael >