text files with utf-8 fails

[olabri]

Hi we (University of Bergen) have a problem with your otherwise excellent app. If we try to view a text file with utf-8 encoding, the preview seems to be in ISO format. We have tried to debug the code a bit, but areunfortunatly not fluid enough in rails.

For instance
https://pdf.uib.no/viewer?url=http://gutenberg.org/files/43724/43724-0.txt
is garbled, but
https://pdf.uib.no/viewer?url=http://gutenberg.org/files/43724/43724-h/43724-h.htm
is not:

[olabri]

but your seems to work: https://docview.sfu.ca/viewer?url=http://gutenberg.org/files/43724/43724-0.txt so it might be a config issue

[va7map]

Could be. All Predoc really does is pass the file path to Docsplit.extract_pdf. The actual conversion is done by LibreOffice. Maybe try running this and see if the output is also garbled?

libreoffice --headless --invisible  --norestore --nolockcheck --convert-to pdf 43724-0.txt