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I'm trying to convert some files that contain utf-8 characters from rtf to text but i can't get unrtf to not just remove them:

➜  ~ file test
test: UTF-8 Unicode text
➜  ~ cat test
eeeééééèèèèfff
➜  ~ unrtf --text test
###  Translation from RTF performed by UnRTF, version 0.21.5 

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eeefff

Is there any way (or another tool) to do this?

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  • You can open a 'Rich Text File' with the editor ted, and save the file as file.txt ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted – Knud Larsen May 16 '17 at 17:10
  • The GNU manual seems to have --noremap which might do what you want – Fox May 17 '17 at 15:15
  • @Fox thanks, but the manual states that it only works for 8-bit charsets, and it does not work in my case. – iCart May 18 '17 at 11:36
  • @KnudLarsen, have you been able to install it on a debian 8? Ted seems to depend on libraries that are no longer available. Also, is there a way to automate it? – iCart May 18 '17 at 11:36
  • @iCart Does it still strip the Unicode if you convert to, say, HTML? lynx -dump is good for turning HTML into proper text, so that might offer a workaround – Fox May 18 '17 at 16:14
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No luck building (compiling) Ted with Debian 8 Jessie : libtiff errors (lots), but a package built on CentOS 7 works perfect with the default Debian 8 libtiff5 !

Built from ted-2.23-1.src.rpm to ted-2.23-1.x86_64.rpm, and completely rebuilt frem the rpm package on Debian 8 to install with the right Debian dependencies ( dpkg-shlibdeps Ted ) ... to ted_2.23-1debian8_amd64.deb. Download link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNUkUzV25qUURXbjA/view?usp=sharing

Installs OK, (and opens OK): Debian 8 - amd64, and Debian 9 - amd64 with # cd Downloads/ && gdebi ./ted_2.23-1debian8_amd64.deb

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