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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/pandoc.1.md | 5 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ Character encodings ------------------- All input is assumed to be in the UTF-8 encoding, and all output -is in UTF-8 (unless your version of pandoc was compiled using -GHC 6.12 or higher, in which case the local encoding will be used). -If your local character encoding is not UTF-8 and you use +is in UTF-8. If your local character encoding is not UTF-8 and you use accented or foreign characters, you should pipe the input and output through [`iconv`]. For example, diff --git a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md index a5fadb5c4..9bc3caef3 100644 --- a/man/man1/pandoc.1.md +++ b/man/man1/pandoc.1.md @@ -53,9 +53,8 @@ markdown: the differences are described in the *README* file in the user documentation. If standard markdown syntax is desired, the `--strict` option may be used. -Pandoc uses the UTF-8 character encoding for both input and output -(unless compiled with GHC 6.12 or higher, in which case it uses -the local encoding). If your local character encoding is not UTF-8, you +Pandoc uses the UTF-8 character encoding for both input and output. +If your local character encoding is not UTF-8, you should pipe input and output through `iconv`: iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8 |