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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Non-ASCII char prevents conversion of manpage to plain text Post 302452916 by cjcox on Monday 13th of September 2010 11:33:56 AM
Old 09-13-2010
Well.. I wasn't kidding. It really does depend on what system we're looking at though. Not everything is well written everywhere and Linux's man (again, there ARE multiple implementations though) in general has some integration to the locale and terminal (which could be arguably the wrong thing, but man is a weird thing without doing some kind of terminal consideration given it's end user is typically human or at least something terminal like).

So... what OS and version in particular could really help in diagnosing this.

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Well.. I wasn't kidding. It really does depend on what system we're looking at though. Not everything is well written everywhere and Linux's man (again, there ARE multiple implementations though) in general has some integration to the locale and terminal (which could be arguably the wrong thing, but man is a weird thing without doing some kind of terminal consideration given it's end user is typically human or at least something terminal like).

So... what OS and version in particular could really help in diagnosing this.
 

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sgml2txt

SGML2TXT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SGML2TXT(1)

NAME

       sgml2txt - create plain text output from a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file

SYNOPSIS

       sgml2txt [generic-option...] [--manpage] [--filter] [--blanks=n] file[.sgml]

DESCRIPTION

       sgml2txt  is  an old and obsoleted form of the text converter command of LinuxDoc-Tools.  It is recommended to switch the new form linuxdoc
       -B text now.  It converts a LinuxDoc DTD SGML source file to ASCII, ISO-8859-1, or EUC-JP output. Output will appear in file.txt where file
       is the name of the SGML source file.

       The attribute/value pair "output=txt" is set for conditionals.

OPTIONS

       sgml2txt accepts all the generic options described in linuxdoc(1), and the following specific options:

       --manpage, -m
	      Outputs a groff source file, suitable for formatting with groff -man for man pages

       --filter, -f
	      Remove backspace-overstrikes from the intermediate form generated by groff(1).

       --pass, -P
	      The argument of the pass option is added to the command-line options handed to groff(1).

       --blanks=n, -b
	      Set  the	limit of continuous blank lines for generating the output document.  The default limit is 3. if 0 (zero) is specified, the
	      result have many continuous blank lines.

       file   The SGML source file, named either file or file.sgml

FILES

       Many files and executables in /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools are used.

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Originally written by Greg Hankins <greg.hankins@cc.gatech.edu>, based on scripts by Tom Gordon and Alexander Horz, and later rewritten	by
       Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> for SGML-Tools (v1).  Currently maintained by Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org> for Linuxdoc-Tools.

SEE ALSO

       linuxdoc(1), sgml2html(1), sgml2info(1), sgml2latex(1), sgml2lyx(1), sgml2rtf(1), sgmlcheck(1).

								    16 May 2000 						       SGML2TXT(1)
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