Re: multilingual man pages

[Pablo Saratxaga]

Kaixo!

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:54:16AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
 
> > That's not the problem.  The problem is it is *impossible* to know
> > for sure what encoding is used in the source troff file; there is no
> > charset=....  line.
> 
> The planned groff 2.0 will use the same syntax as Emacs to define the
> input character set, i.e. the first line contains
> 
>   -*- coding: foo -*-
> 
> in a comment.

How exactly, eg:

.\" -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

> This info will then be forwarded to a preprocessor
> which converts the man page to UTF-8.

But the output requested by the user may be different of utf-8.
Is it planned to add conversion capabilities?

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