2008/10/1 Reini Urban: > 2008/10/1 Bernt Røskar Brenna: >> I believe that the Cygwin package catdoc is missing the file /etc/catdocrc >> >> Without the settings in the file, running catdoc against Word >> documents with Norwegian characters produces strange results. >> >> I have used the following /etc/catdocrc: >> charset_path=/usr/share/catdoc >> map_path=/usr/share/catdoc >> source_charset=cp1252 >> target_charset=8859-1 >> unknown_char='?' > > Thanks for this info. > >> There is another quite strange matter: >> 'catdoc test_catdoc.doc' and 'catdoc -d8859-1 test_catdoc.doc' >> produces different results (with the config file above, that has >> 8859-1 as default). How is that possible? > > Because the defaults are insane. > in: cp1251 out: koi8-r > > ----- version 0.94.2-2 ----- > * Added --with-input=cp1252 --with-output=8859-1 > Was cp1251 to koi8-r as default > * Added /etc/catdocrc (thanks to Bernt Røskar Brenna) > >> $ catdoc test_catdoc.doc >> aeoa >> >> $ catdoc -d8859-1 test_catdoc.doc >> æøå
I was wrong before. The source charset is almost always unicode and the target charset is falsely detected on cygwin as US-ASCII. You get "aeoa" because "æøå" translated to US-ASCII is "aeoa". You can override this with use_locale=no in the catdocrc. > I'm just having problems with the new cygport or autoreconfig, > so it doesn't build yet. > I hope I can fix it soon. I also found the build problem and fixed it. The new release will come this evening. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
