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Summary: src/roff/groff/groff.1.man: use "-K enc" instead of
"-k"
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: bjarniig
Submitted: Thu 09 Nov 2023 07:18:20 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 09 Nov 2023 07:18:20 PM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: src/roff/groff/groff.1.man: use "-K enc" instead of "-k"
See for example
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-08/msg00135.html
and more with the same subject "Baffling accented glyphs issue",
and
.../2023-11/msg00010.hmml.
Instead of
.B \-k
Run
.MR preconv @MAN1EXT@
preprocessor.
.
Refer to its man page for its behavior if neither of
write something like
.B \-k
Use "-K enc" instead of "-k" when the encoding (enc) is known.
.
Refer to
.MR preconv's @MAN1EXT@
man page for its behavior if neither of
+verbatim+
The user can know what encoding is used in the input files,
but groff (preconv) can't with just "-k".
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