reassign 533778 groff-base
retitle 533778 [fixed in 1.20] "\('o" is rendered as "o" in the ISO-8859-2
encoding
thanks
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:13:36PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> When a manual page declares the ISO-8859-2 encoding, "\('o" is rendered
> as "o", although ISO-8859-2 does include the "ó" character.
>
> $ ./test-encodings UTF-8 ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2
> UTF-8: ó = ó
>
> ISO-8859-1: ó = ó
>
> ISO-8859-2: o = ó
Thanks for your detailed report. This is essentially happening because
the ascii8 device is not typographically sound: because it doesn't know
the output encoding it cannot produce accurate renderings of named groff
characters in it.
I've confirmed this to be fixed when groff 1.20 is used instead. I have
packaging of that undergoing testing at the moment, and am hoping to get
it into Debian this summer.
Regards,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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