On 2026-03-15 Morten Bo Johansen wrote:

> Well, probably not voodoo but very strange to me. Try this:
>
>   echo "\\\f[U-S]\[uF8E8]\f" | groff -Tpdf | pdftotext - -
>   
> And if you see the same as me, you'll see a white circle with an
> intersection symbol in it.

˝/ % echo '\uf8e8'


So that seems to be the correct symbol. Apparently pdftotext then somehow
translates a wrong symbol from groff into a correct one?

Regards,
Morten



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