> > What exactly do you mean? Converting UTF-8 to, say, latin-1 with > > `iconv' is already a quick-and-dirty solution. Another > > possibility is to take a groff UTF8 font definition file and put > > all Unicode->glyph entities into a big perl (or python) table. > > I mean that you had an idea to use a small filter to > # Convert input in UTF8 encoding to something groff 1.19 or greater > # can understand. It simply converts all Unicode values >= U+0080 > # to the form \[uXXXX]. > You posted "a small perl script which does that" > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-02/msg00094.html), > that was later rewritten in C > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-06/msg00025.html). > That seems to be a way to let people start to convert documents > in latin or cyrillic encodings, if they want to move to UTF-only > environment.
Indeed. It might be a good idea to put such stuff into the `contrib' directory of http://groff.ffii.org. Do you volunteer to provide documentation, examples, etc., to make those scripts/programs really useful? I hesitate to put it into the groff distribution directly. Now 1.19.2 is out, and work on real UTF8 input could start. Werner _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
