Is there no better way to translate manual.xml into manual.txt beside using a webbrowser to dump manual.html? Perhaps there is none.
The current state for me is oddly looking output. Example: ... 7. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail ... function bound to ?b? and ?f? respectively. ... xxd says: 00017db0: 3c62 6f75 6e63 653e 2066 756e 6374 696f <bounce> functio 00017dc0: 6e20 616e 6420 666f 7277 6172 6469 6e67 n and forwarding 00017dd0: 2075 7369 6e67 2074 6865 203c 666f 7277 using the <forw 00017de0: 6172 643e 0a66 756e 6374 696f 6e20 626f ard>.function bo 00017df0: 756e 6420 746f 20e2 809c 62e2 809d 2061 und to ...b... a 00017e00: 6e64 20e2 809c 66e2 809d 2072 6573 7065 nd ...f... respe 00017e10: 6374 6976 656c 792e 0a0a 466f 7277 6172 ctively...Forwar 00017e20: 6469 6e67 2063 616e 2062 6520 646f 6e65 ding can be done Is 0xe2 0x80 0x9c valid UTF-8 for '“'? Appearently it is, because thats what Firefox gives with copy&paste, and its looking fine in this vim session. So that means that less(1) and even vim(1) is unable to cope with manual.txt. Is there perhaps a mix of encodings in manual.txt that confuses the pager?! Does it fail just for me? ... After some debugging it turned out that mutt has a bug: LC_ALL=C w3m -dump doc/manual.html > bad.txt LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 w3m -dump doc/manual.html > good.txt I suggest to force UTF-8 instead of plain ASCII. Olaf
