Hi Peter,
> The grep in pdfmom is returning a binary file hit when it encounters
> the diacritic in
>
> .ds pdf:look(pdf:bm1) L'étranger
What does locale(1) output for you where you run this pdfmom command?
> The solution is to pass the -a flag to grep.
How about
groff ... 2>&1 | LC_ALL=C grep '^\.ds' | groff ...
BTW, pdfmom has a bug shown by that strace command I suggested.
system("groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...");
That's a double-quoted Perl string so `\.' is escaping the dot and grep
sees a plain dot for `any character'. The backslash needs doubling.
$ perl -wl
print "groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...";
print "groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\\.ds' | groff ...";
^D
groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^.ds' | groff ...
groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...
$
> Question: why does grep treat the presence of the diacritic as cause
> for saying "Binary file (standard input) matches"?
Need `locale's output. :-)
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Cheers, Ralph.
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