Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (192 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 2011-04-22 13:40, Pavol Rusnak wrote:

> On 22/04/11 13:09, Juergen Weigert wrote:
> > Dos2unix is not that bad. 
> > You may want to avoid 'dos2unix -c iso' which also mangles the encoding.
> > I've updated the wiki page to reflect those details. Malcolm, do you confirm?
>
> I don't get it.
>
> the wikipage says:
>
> You must not use dos2unix in iso mode, because that not only changes
> CRLF to LF, but also changes the encoding from CP437 to ISO-8859-1. Use
> one of:
>
>  * dos2unix -c ascii file
>  * ... other options
>
> But when I check dos2unix manpage it says:
>
> -c, --convmode CONVMODE
>    Set conversion mode. Where CONVMODE is one of: ascii, 7bit, iso, mac
> with ascii being the default.
>
> So -c ascii does not make sense I guess as dos2unix by default uses
> ascii and not iso. For the same reason the whole "must not use dos2unix
> in iso mode" warning seems invalid.

-c ascii was not always the default. Now it is. Irk. One more reason to 
have just used perl. Better safe than sorry.
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