-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: nroff does not honor TYPESETTER
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:40:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org>
To: schw...@pobox.com
CC: bug-gr...@gnu.org
References: <4740ecc9.9030...@pobox.com>
> nroff does not honor the TYPESETTER environment variable documented
> in the "Troff User's Manual" page 31.
`TYPESETTER' is implementation specific. The corresponding
environment variable for groff is `GROFF_TYPESETTER'.
> SUGGESTED FIX [optional]:
> If the TYPESETTER environment variable is set, use it rather than
> guess based on the locale.
I implemented that for GROFF_TYPESETTER. Please test the CVS.
> Additionally, I wouldn't be upset if groff stopped mapping ASCII
> input characters into Unicode.
This has been already discussed, and I'll fix that somehow for man
pages (but not in general).
Thanks
Werner
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