Bug#516027: html2text: suggest output coding not through LC_CTYPE

2009-02-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin 
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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Bug#516027: html2text: suggest output coding not through LC_CTYPE

2009-02-18 Thread Kevin Ryde 
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.

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.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages html2text depends on:
ii  libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1   1:4.3.3-3  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++64.3.3-3The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

html2text recommends no packages.

Versions of packages html2text suggests:
ii  curl  7.18.2-8   Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  wget  1.11.4-2   retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information



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