Generate text file does not supports UTF-8

[emanjon]

Generate HTML supports UTF-8. Generate text file does not supports UTF-8. My name is generated as "Preu� Mattsson". I feel discriminated. Why is anything else than UTF-8 even allowed?

John Preuß Mattsson

[kesara]

@emanjon Can you provide an example draft?

[kesara]

There was a similar issue in #14 where that seems to be the browser is trying to use the wrong charset.

Did you try to open the text document from a different editor?

Also, what's the browser/editor that you are using?

[emanjon]

Thank for the quick response. Yes, this seems very similar to #14. It does depend on the browser used.

The official xml for RFC 9190 is a good example (i.e., it does not depend on my editor).
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9190.xml

• The compilation to text does not produce the correct non-ASCII characters when using Safari Version 15.6 (17613.3.9.1.5) on MacOS Montery Version 12.5.
• The compilation to html does produce the correct non-ASCII characters when using Safari Version 15.6 (17613.3.9.1.5) on MacOS Montery Version 12.5.
• The compilation to text and html does produce the correct non-ASCII characters when using Firefox 103.0 (64-bit) on MacOS Montery Version 12.5.

So the problem is either in the Safari browser or the code for https://author-tools.ietf.org.

[kesara]

Thanks for the information. I can reproduce the issue in Safari 15.6.
It turns out that the default encoding in Safari is Windows (ISO Latin 1).
If you change the default encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) text displays fine.

You can change this from "Preferences -> Advanced":

I'll investigate if there's anything more that I could do from author tools side to make this work better on Safari.

[emanjon]

Thanks!

default encoding in Safari is Windows (ISO Latin 1)

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I'll investigate if there's anything more that I could do from author tools side to make this work better on Safari.

As generating HTML with Safari works without changing the default encoding I would expect that it is possible to make it work better.

[kesara]

As generating HTML with Safari works without changing the default encoding I would expect that it is possible to make it work better.

It is easier with HTML because charset can be defined in meta.

[kesara]

Closing this issue as this repository is being archived.
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