Re: [Docutils-develop] DocFactory : Special characters from Word files

[David G. <go...@py...>]

Pierre-Yves Delens wrote:
> ------------------
> Special characters
> ------------------
>=20
> further than setting the output-encoding to ISO-8859-1
> (OK for =E9=E0=E8 [éàè], ...)
>=20
> How can I manage the import of a Word Document containing some
> "? [€]", or "=91 [Œ]" ?

[I added XML character entities in brackets in case the encoding
gets messed up.]

Do you know the encoding of the Word document (or output)?  Set the
--input-encoding of Docutils to the same encoding and you should be
fine.  If it's Windows, CP1252 or similar may be it.

> The same problem is arising with some control characters from
> Windows, although we carefully import through a plain text editor
> first.

I can't help without specifics.

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