Re: RFS: swedish (updated ispell and spell packages) (fwd)

[Dimitar Ivanov <drimiks@mirendom.net>]

Actually I wanted to post this to the list..

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:13:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dimitar Ivanov <drimiks@mirendom.net>
Reply-To: dimitar.ivanov@mirendom.net
To: Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>
Subject: Re: RFS: swedish (updated ispell and spell packages)

Hi Jeremiah,

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:

> Doing iconv --from-code=ASCII --to-code=UTF-8 debian/copyright
> produces this error on my machine: "iconv: illegal input sequence at
> position 216". This is roughly at the spot where the Swedish letters
> begin. Transiliterating the Swedish to English, then doing iconv
> works however, and this is what is in the latest .deb. (-3)

Since your original file includes swedish letters, it is not in ASCII but in 
whatever encoding your used to type them. If you used for example ISO_8859-1, 
then you should convert by:

iconv --from-code=ISO_8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 debian/copyright

See 'iconv -l' for list of known character sets.

regards,
Dimitar