[sword-devel] Output text encoding for Windows MOS2IMP ?

[David Haslam]

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 <chrislit at 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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