[sword-devel] Output text encoding for Windows MOS2IMP ?

[Chris Little]

mod2imp was designed and intended to output the contents of a module as 
it is represented within that module, without any processing, 
irrespective of markup, encoding, or OS.
--Chris

David Haslam wrote:
> Is there a reason why the text encoding for the output of the Sword (1.6)
> Windows utility MOD2IMP is not Unicode?
> 
> I just tried 
> 
> mod2imp FreCrl >FreCrl.imp.txt
> 
> and found the text file was encoded as Windows 1252: Western European.
> 
> It would be much more sensible for the output to be encoded as UTF-8.
> 
> btw.  Does the *nix version behave the same way?
> 
> David Haslam
> 
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