[bt-devel] Text encoding question new kde

Fred Saalbach bt-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:13:12 -0400


KDE now uses meinproc for translation from docbook.xml to html and for
xml verification.  kdb2html is nolonger available at mandrake 8.1.

the problem

the english docbook file is already encoded ok, The .de, .it, and .cs
files all five this error message.

[fks00@localhost all]$ checkXML how2.de.xml
how2.de.xml:22: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Der Text wurde zur Veröffentlichung von Fred Saalbach angepasst.</para>
                      ^
how2.de.xml:22: error: Bytes: 0xF6 0x66 0x66 0x65
Der Text wurde zur Veröffentlichung von Fred Saalbach angepasst.</para>
                      ^
How do i figure out what the existing encoding is?
I already know how to convert to utf-8 once the encoding is known.

Fred Saalbach