Bug#283949: allow generation of plain text

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:16, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> While investigating how to incorporate the install manual into
> the websites I saw there is no plain text output yet. I've prepared
> a little patch to allow this (xml->single html->text).

I have committed this patch to SVN (trunk only) with some additions.

- Variable encoding to support Czech, Russian and Japanese
  I have set the encoding for these languages as follows
  - cs: ISO-8859-2
  - ja: EUC-JP
  - ru: KOI8-R

  I think it would be better if the intermediate file would be UTF-8, but
  was unable to quickly find out how to set that.

- Replace some unprintable characters
  I noticed that some characters were replaced by a ? in the text file.
  The main problems were quotes and dashes. I managed to replace these
  using a sed script.

See the script now in SVN for details.

Kenshi, Nikolai, Miroslav:
Could you please check if I used the correct charset and if the result is 
acceptable for your languages?

(Leaving the bug open for now as improvements are possible.)