Re: pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\xc9': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.Fusion.streamUtf8: Invalid UTF-8 stream

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

As the manual says, the input must be UTF-8 encoded text.
Your input is probably latin-1 encoded.

See https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#character-encoding

You can use iconv to convert on the fly.

iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 input.tex | pandoc -s -f latex -o output.docx


Louis de Blois <ldeblois2286-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hello !
>
>
> Since a month I have had a problem with pandoc. It's a quite regular 
> problem, I have seen, but I haven't found my solution.
>
>
> I want to convert a tex file in docx (or odt) :
> pandoc -s input.tex -o ouput.docx
>
> But I recept this message : 
> pandoc: Cannot decode byte '\xe9': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.Fusion.
> streamUtf8: Invalid UTF-8 stream
>
>
> After many research, I've found that \xe9 is the latin small letter e with 
> acute (é or è ?).
>
>
> This command from the pandoc documentation :
>
> iconv -t utf-8 input.tex | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8
>
> doesn't work : 
> iconv: séquence d'échappement non permise à la position 401
>
> <p>\begin{document}</p>
>
>
> As I can't not use this character, would you have a solution, please ?
>
>
> Thank you !
>
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