frequent cases above.
It _seems_ like this should be doable using Recode. However, when
- I try something like `grecode mac macfile.txt' I get nothing
+ I try something like `recode mac macfile.txt' I get nothing
out--no error, no output, nothing.
+ *Note_* For the following discussion to be true, you should have
+something like `export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' in your environment, the
+important bit here being the specification of an preferred charset.
+
Presuming you are using some recent version of Recode, the command:
recode mac macfile.txt
When a charset name is omitted or left empty, the value of the
`DEFAULT_CHARSET' variable in the environment is used instead. If this
-variable is not defined, the Recode library uses the current locale's
-encoding. On POSIX compliant systems, this depends on the first
-non-empty value among the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG,
-and can be determined through the command `locale charmap'.
+variable is not defined, the Recode library (from version 3.6 and up)
+uses the current locale's encoding. On POSIX compliant systems, this
+depends on the first non-empty value among the environment variables
+LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, and can be determined through the command
+`locale charmap'. If the current locale's encoding may not be
+resolved, then Recode presumes `ASCII' (or, for Recode 3.6 only:
+`CHAR').
If the charset name is omitted but followed by surfaces, the surfaces
then qualify the usual or default charset. For example, the request
* Apple-Mac: Apple-Mac. (line 6)
* arabic: Tabular. (line 464)
* arabic7: Tabular. (line 74)
-* ASCII: Tabular. (line 69)
+* ASCII <1>: Tabular. (line 69)
+* ASCII: Requests. (line 104)
* ASCII, an alias for the ANSI_X3.4-1968 charset: ASCII. (line 6)
* ASCII-BS, and its aliases: ASCII-BS. (line 6)
* ASMO-708: Tabular. (line 464)
* BS_viewdata, aliases and source: Tabular. (line 82)
* ca: Tabular. (line 118)
* CDC-NOS, and its aliases: CDC-NOS. (line 6)
+* CHAR: Requests. (line 104)
* cl: End lines. (line 37)
* cn: Tabular. (line 211)
* combined-UCS-2: UCS-2. (line 34)
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@quotation
It @emph{seems} like this should be doable using Recode. However,
-when I try something like @samp{grecode mac macfile.txt} I get nothing
+when I try something like @samp{recode mac macfile.txt} I get nothing
out---no error, no output, nothing.
@end quotation
+@strong{Note:} For the following discussion to be true, you should have
+something like @samp{export LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1} in your environment,
+the important bit here being the specification of an preferred charset.
+
Presuming you are using some recent version of Recode, the command:
@example
@cindex default charset
@cindex charset, default
@vindex DEFAULT_CHARSET
+@tindex ASCII
+@tindex CHAR
When a charset name is omitted or left empty, the value of the
-@code{DEFAULT_CHARSET} variable in the environment is used instead. If this
-variable is not defined, the Recode library uses the current locale's
-encoding. On POSIX compliant systems, this depends on the first non-empty
-value among the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, and can be
-determined through the command @samp{locale charmap}.
+@code{DEFAULT_CHARSET} variable in the environment is used instead.
+If this variable is not defined, the Recode library (from version
+3.6 and up) uses the current locale's encoding. On POSIX compliant
+systems, this depends on the first non-empty value among the environment
+variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, and can be determined through the
+command @samp{locale charmap}. If the current locale's encoding may not
+be resolved, then Recode presumes @code{ASCII} (or, for Recode
+3.6 only: @code{CHAR}).
If the charset name is omitted but followed by surfaces, the surfaces
then qualify the usual or default charset. For example, the request
Solve an old bug about loosing a few characters every 2048.
* iconv.c (wrapped_transform): Rewritten.
(transform_with_iconv): Simplified, use only one iconv_t.
- Reported by Alexander Kurz, Andrew Green, Daniel Pfeiffer,
- David Necas, Éric Bischoff, Frederik Fouvry, Guillaume Rumeau,
- Jean-Christophe Guillain, John Gorman, Luc Maisonobe,
- Marcin Owsiany, Martin Trautmann, Mikko Harjula, Peter Much,
- Petr Pajas, Régis Martin, Stephen Walkauskas, Urban Mueller
- dand Volker Wysk.
+ Reported by Alexander Kurz, Andreas Kunert, Andrew Green, Daniel
+ Pfeiffer, David Necas, Éric Bischoff, Frederik Fouvry, Guillaume
+ Rumeau, Jean-Christophe Guillain, John Gorman, Luc Maisonobe,
+ Marcin Owsiany, Martin Trautmann, Mikko Harjula, Pavel Forsite,
+ Peter Much, Petr Pajas, Régis Martin, Stephen Walkauskas,
+ Urban Mueller and Volker Wysk.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add stamp-strip.
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