URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51330>
Summary: preconv fails to detect utf-8 without BOM
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: bgarrigues
Submitted on: Tue 27 Jun 2017 10:31:10 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: Confirmed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: bgarrigues
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
(See also comment #1 from bug #50989)
typesetting.pdf (utf-8 file without BOM; contains some characters with French
accents) is not correctly generated in the build tree because LC_ALL=C is
passed: this causes `preconv' to use "latin1" as default encoding, which is
the expected behaviour according to the man page of `preconv', and therefore
characters with accents are not properly handled.
There are several quick fixes to the generation of mom examples:
- Add a BOM to the .mom files.
- Use '-K utf8' instead of just '-k'
- Add a tag to the .mom files.
However it seems to me that `preconv' should not rely on the locale to detect
the file encoding.
Would it make sense to use, for example, libmagic (from the `file' utility) to
make preconv correctly detect the input file encoding?
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