Re: Unicode Text export

Hi Apollon,

One way to work around this problem is to use:

AbiWord --to=txt --exp-props="encoding:utf-8" test.doc

This will produce a UTF-8 encoded test.txt file.

Sorry!
Dom

On 11/3/06, Apollon Koutlides <apollon@planewalk.net> wrote:
>
> Hi to the list,
>
> I've been trying to export from the command line to Unicode Text without
> much success. I'm using Abiword-2.4.4 with an input test file named
> test.doc which contains some Latin-1 text and some Greek text, created
> with OOo.
>
> My locale is en_GB.UTF-8
>
> My attempts and results:
>
> $ abiword --to=text test.doc
>
> This runs successfully, producing a plain-text file where all Greek
> characters are replaced with 0x03F
>
> Consulting the output from abiword --help:
> -t, --to=FORMAT Target format of the file (abw,
> zabw, rtf, txt, utf8, html,
> latex)
> ...I tried the following:
>
> $ abiword --to=utf8 test.doc
> AbiWord: Uch! Are you sure that you've specified a valid exporter?
>
>
> I didn't manage to find anything on the Internet or in the documentation
> (even tried skimming through the source but Abiword's source is not for
> the faint of heart to fight through) - does anyone here have any hints
> for me? (insults welcome if I'm just being stupid, of course)
>
> Apollon Koutlides
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