URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49887>
Summary: nroff -D option (in particular, -Dutf8)
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Mon 19 Dec 2016 01:46:20 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wishlist
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Troff supports -D and -T options to indicate character encodings, whereas
Nroff doesn't.
At the same time, nroff is used by man to format man pages (and nroff -mandoc)
is default in /etc/man.conf.
Could the -D option be added to nroff, or, maybe, just proxied to troff
(since, afaiu, nroff calls troff inside).
This would greatly enhance the user-friendliness of an average Linux distro,
since many internationalised man pages are supplied in utf8.
It shouldn't be too hard to implement, since troff already supports this
option.
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