URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68129>
Summary: [troff] change internal character representation to
a wider data type
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 07 Mar 2026 10:57:57 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Lint
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 07 Mar 2026 10:57:57 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Filing this as a discrete ticket mainly so that other tickets can express
dependencies on it.
Presently, GNU _troff_ internally represents characters using the C standard
type `unsigned char`, because back in the heyday of ISO 8859, eight bits ought
to have been enough for anyone.
Migrate to a wider type. char32_t has seemed like the best choice for years
now.
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