> Did you state previously that you were using a newish version of Red > Hat? Red Hat has moved to defaulting things to a UTF-8 > environment. I
Yup, Red Hat 8.0 > believe one consequence is that Perl treats text mode filehandles as > UTF-8; this has the potential to introduce problems if the input > includes anything other than 7-bit ASCII (i.e. characters coded with > values greater than 127). That's good to know. > > You might try putting the filehandle in binary mode and see if that > clears up the problem. In order to do this, simply add the line > > binmode CAT; > > immediately preceding the first use of the handle. That should be > somewhere in the neighborhood of line 110 I think (the code > should be > added before 'while (<CAT>)'). Worked perfectly!!! Thanks a million Jim!!! Hava good one! Dan > > Jim > > On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 12:43 PM, Dan Muey wrote: > > > When indexing pdf's, I accasionally get: > > > > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte > 0xad, with no > > preceding start byte) in substitution ... > > > > Always blamed on line 113 and 117 in pdf2html.pl > > > > Which is in pdf_body() ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
