> My personal opinion:
>
> [...]
Almost all of your suggestions are planned as you describe. BTW, it
has been discussed about a year ago on the groff list; Kubota-san has
already written an interface between iconv and groff for testing
purposes.
> G1) The default input and output encoding of groff shall be
> nl_langinfo(CODESET)
OK.
> G2) Add a new command (".IE <mime-charset-name>" for input encoding?)
> to the groff input format that can be used to override the default
> input encoding in the man page file. The Emacs tagging convention
> could also be used in a comment of course.
OK. The request will have a different (longer) name, though...
> G3) Add two new command line options:
>
> -e<mime-charset-name> override default input encoding
> -E<mime-charset-name> override default output encoding
OK. The name of the switches may vary...
> G4) Add checks that abort with an error message if the encodings
> specified in .IE and -e disagree.
Hmm, I rather favor that the command line option overrides the
request in the file.
Werner
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