German ß to epub

German ß to epub

['Andreas Lenhardt' via pandoc-discuss]

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I tried to make an epub ebook from a txt file, but it gives an error:

pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\xdf': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.decodeUtf8: 
Invalid UTF-8 stream

Any ideas how to solve this?

Regards
Andi

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Re: German ß to epub

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018, 'Andreas Lenhardt' via pandoc-discuss wrote:
> I tried to make an epub ebook from a txt file, but it gives an error:
> 
> pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\xdf': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.decodeUtf8: 
> Invalid UTF-8 stream
> 
> Any ideas how to solve this?

The input file is not encoded as UTF-8 (what Pandoc expects) but
more likely ISO 8859-1 aka Latin-1. If you are on Linux, the
"recode" tool can convert the file like so:

  recode latin1..utf8 file.txt

Note that recode works in-place, that is, the file is changed,
and it doesn't make backups. More info can be found using "man
recode".

Another option is to use an editor that can load/save specific
encodings, like vim.

Hope this helps,
Tobias