Updated man page and README.

Pandoc no longer respects locale, even when compiled by GHC 6.12.
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John MacFarlane 2010-05-06 22:32:06 -07:00
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@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ Character encodings
-------------------
All input is assumed to be in the UTF-8 encoding, and all output
is in UTF-8 (unless your version of pandoc was compiled using
GHC 6.12 or higher, in which case the local encoding will be used).
If your local character encoding is not UTF-8 and you use
is in UTF-8. If your local character encoding is not UTF-8 and you use
accented or foreign characters, you should pipe the input and output
through [`iconv`]. For example,

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@ -53,9 +53,8 @@ markdown: the differences are described in the *README* file in
the user documentation. If standard markdown syntax is desired, the
`--strict` option may be used.
Pandoc uses the UTF-8 character encoding for both input and output
(unless compiled with GHC 6.12 or higher, in which case it uses
the local encoding). If your local character encoding is not UTF-8, you
Pandoc uses the UTF-8 character encoding for both input and output.
If your local character encoding is not UTF-8, you
should pipe input and output through `iconv`:
iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | pandoc | iconv -f utf-8