HTML to UTF-8 conversion not working

[Kevin Scannell]

Binary package hint: vilistextum

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

Version 2.6.9-1 of vilistextum.

This program has a command line flag -u that ensures the output is in UTF-8. When I run it on one of my UTF-8 encoded pages (e.g. here: http://borel.slu.edu/lsg/index.html) the output isn't encoded correctly.

I've used this program from the sources before and it worked fine. I suspect maybe the ubuntu package wasn't configured with the option:

./configure --enable-multibyte

as suggested in the INSTALL file in the source distribution.