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@@ -62,12 +62,17 @@ Note that you can specify multiple input files on the command line. `pandoc` will concatenate them all (with blank lines between them) before parsing: - pandoc -s ch1.txt ch2.txt refs.txt > book.html + pandoc -s ch1.txt ch2.txt refs.txt > book.html (The `-s` option here tells `pandoc` to produce a standalone HTML file, with a proper header, rather than a fragment. For more details on this and many other command-line options, see below.) +Instead of a filename, you can specify an absolute URI. In this +case pandoc will attempt to download the content via HTTP: + + pandoc -f html -t markdown http://www.fsf.org + The format of the input and output can be specified explicitly using command-line options. The input format can be specified using the `-r/--read` or `-f/--from` options, the output format using the @@ -113,7 +118,9 @@ Character encodings ------------------- All input is assumed to be in the UTF-8 encoding, and all output -is in UTF-8. If your local character encoding is not UTF-8 and you use +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 accented or foreign characters, you should pipe the input and output through [`iconv`]. For example, |