antiword reports "I can't open your mapping file" error

[Radrik5]

I use Git 2.6.0 64 bit on Windows 7. Clean install without Windows Explorer integration.

MCVE:

Projects $ git clone https://github.com/Radrik5/test-git-diff
Cloning into 'test-git-diff'...
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Total 9 (delta 0), reused 9 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (9/9), 6.06 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Projects $ cd test-git-diff/

test-git-diff $ GIT_TRACE=1 git diff HEAD^
11:50:31.465972 git.c:348               trace: built-in: git 'diff' 'HEAD^'
11:50:31.469972 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'less'
11:50:31.471972 run-command.c:335       trace: run_command: 'astextplain' 'Document.doc'
diff --git a/Document.doc b/Document.doc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..934e298
I can't open your mapping file (UTF-8.txt)
It is not in 'C:\Users\Radrik5\AppData\Local\/.antiword' nor in '/usr/share/antiword'.
        Name: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\antiword.exe
        Purpose: Display MS-Word files
        Author: (C) 1998-2005 Adri van Os
        Version: 0.37  (21 Oct 2005)
        Status: GNU General Public License
        Usage: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\antiword.exe [switches] wordfile1 [wordfile2 ...]
        Switches: [-f|-t|-a papersize|-p papersize|-x dtd][-m mapping][-w #][-i #][-Ls]
                -f formatted text output
                -t text output (default)
                -a <paper size name> Adobe PDF output
                -p <paper size name> PostScript output
                   paper size like: a4, letter or legal
                -x <dtd> XML output
                   like: db (DocBook)
                -m <mapping> character mapping file
                -w <width> in characters of text output
                -i <level> image level (PostScript only)
                -L use landscape mode (PostScript only)
                -r Show removed text
                -s Show hidden (by Word) text

[Radrik5]

Could you install /usr/share/antiword within Git for Windows? I didn't see such errors with Git 1.9.5.

[kblees]

I encountered the same problem yesterday, just had no time to investigate further.

Could you install /usr/share/antiword within Git for Windows

These files are actually installed, antiword just doesn't find them.

As a workaround, I copied the content of $INSTALLDIR/mingw64/share/antiword to my $HOME/.antiword.

[dscho]

I can reproduce the problem!

[dscho]

And I fixed the problem, see https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/807

[Radrik5]

Cool! Thank you!

[dscho]

A new package was uploaded, so this problem has been addressed.