Hi Dave,
On Tue, 14 Apr 2026, Dave Kemper wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:32?AM Damian McGuckin <[email protected]> wrote:
Moving away from Latin-1 will likely cause serious problems for people who
have lots of old files.
I'm not sure what this means. This thread is about plain-text files
in the groff tree, which seems to have little bearing on anyone's old
files.
Point taken.
My few European friends with names which need UTF-8 characters (umlauts)
have for quite a while been spelling the names in a form which avoided the
need for UTF-8. Just a comment.
I recently was reading C++ code written in UTF-8 and I found it difficult.
Very tiring on the eyes because it was more than reading, it was thinking
about the mathematics behind the code.
Not sure what this means either. If your viewer was making you
convert individual bytes to UTF-8 characters in your head, your viewer
is configured badly. If that's not what you meant, can you clarify?
It was more a general comment. Nothing to do with groff per se. The C++
code was that of an elementary mathematical function and temporary
variables related to (say) the square of a variable x were written as x
with a UTF-8 suprtscript of 2. I was amazed at how difficult the code was
to read. Maybe I need to start using my glasses more often.
Thanks anyway - Damian
