> > The agreement was to recognize the encoding according to a note
> > in the first line
> > '\" -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
>
> Who made this agreement?
It has been discussed on the groff list starting about five years ago.
> I'm a mere groff user, while you seem to arrive from a Linux manpage
> i18n project. Is that the group that reached the agreement?
Implementing a UTF-8 device *must* come with proper means to convert
documents in legacy encodings automatically to UTF-8. This is a
requirement not tied with the man program.
> - This kind of change needs to be thought through carefully.
> Dreaking existing documents is something that might anger a lot of
> people. The user who sees a new groff fail on an old document is
> not always in a position to modify it, and the author may not be
> in a position to reach all her readers with updated versions.
I'm very aware of backwards compatibility, and the default -- this is,
calling groff with C locale, and without environment variable or
command line settings -- will be latin-1 for all devices except -Tutf8
and -Tascii.
Werner
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