Charset for single text file

#1

Hi,

inside my web site structure there is a single plain text file that needs to be served as charset iso-8859-1. My web server is configured accordingly.

But I cannot process it in Middleman. If I put a text file with encoding iso-8859-1 in a folder within source (so that it gets copied to the same folder in build/), Middleman fails to do that because it encountered illegal UTF-8.

Can I configure that file (maybe with front matter), so that Middleman processes it in another charset?

#2

Maybe try to ignore this file in config.rb and then copy it from source to build with after_build trigger?

# CONFIG.RB

# ignore part
  ignore "/path/to/file.txt"

# After build hooks
after_build do |builder|
  puts "Copying files after build…"
  system("cp #{config[:source]+'/path/to/file.txt'} #{config[:build_dir]+'/path/to/'}")
end

But I wonder how the ISO 8859-1 file is not working since it’s no special-characters encoding. Surely it doesn’t have the BOM mark, maybe Ruby is expecting this?