Thanks Greg (& Chris), I have no difficulty in converting the IMP output file encoding to UTF-8.
As a Windows user, I generally use http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html EditPad Lite to perform this task. It's just that I was surprised that the internal representation of some modules is not UTF-8. David Greg Hellings wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Chris Little <chris...@crosswire.org> > wrote: > >> mod2imp was designed and intended to output the contents of a module as >> it >> is represented within that module, without any processing, irrespective >> of >> markup, encoding, or OS. >> > > To that effect, I have found other utilities to be very helpful in format > conversion, It probably won't help with imp format, but when an OSIS > document is in an encoding other than UTF-8 I used the xsltproc utility > and > wrote the simplest of XSLT sheets that just copied the contents across to > output and asked it to output UTF-8 encoding. > > I'm fairly sure you can find other utilities to do that with plain text > files if you need them. Simply piping the output of mod2imp through one > of > those would probably accomplish your goals. > > --Greg > > >> --Chris >> >> David Haslam wrote: >> >>> Is there a reason why the text encoding for the output of the Sword >>> (1.6) >>> Windows utility MOD2IMP is not Unicode? >>> >>> I just tried >>> mod2imp FreCrl >FreCrl.imp.txt >>> >>> and found the text file was encoded as Windows 1252: Western European. >>> >>> It would be much more sensible for the output to be encoded as UTF-8. >>> >>> btw. Does the *nix version behave the same way? >>> >>> David Haslam >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Output-text-encoding-for-Windows-MOD2IMP---tp25751292p25764610.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
