Hello Tony,
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:26 AM tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I believe the portion of the manpage you are referring to is:
>
> CONVERSION MODES
> ascii
> In mode "ascii" only line breaks are converted. This is the default
> conversion mode. [**Missing information about UTF-16 behavior.**]
>
> Although the name of this mode is ASCII, which is a 7 bit standard,
> the actual mode is 8 bit. Use always this mode when converting
> Unicode UTF-8 files.
>
Yes, that is the section I was considering. The first sentence is quite
definite that _only_ line breaks are converted, so the conversion of UTF-16
was a surprise (a pleasant one, yes, but still a surprise).
Ideally, I'd like to see the option renamed and the man page say something
like:
CONVERSION MODES
unix
In the default mode, "unix", line breaks are converted to newlines,
Unicode characters are encoded in UTF-8, and any BOM header is stripped.
This mode was originally called "ascii" and that name still works as an
alias for backwards compatibility.
And, yes, I had missed the reference to how -ascii actually works in the
--keep-utf16 section. It is good to see that unix2dos actually does what I
wanted rather than what it claims it does.
Thank you.
Ben Wong
