Werner LEMBERG wrote in news://news.nl.linux.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
groff will use iconv as a simple preprocessor. I plan that in future groff will understand only two input encodings: latin1 (for backwards compatibility) and utf8.
Sounds reasonable, but why groff is not in future yet, after more than 1 year? Why UTF-8 input was not provided in groff-1.19 ?
<rant>Will damn groff someday accept non-latin texts or each user have to make its own patch for it? In 1.19 a hell of various tmac's is provided except some few which are needed for people who are so unhappy that use UTF-8 for non-latin scripts! </rant>
Of course, I can filter KOI8-R cyrillic via groff in 8bit mode, but such kind of solution is not acceptable for East Asian scripts and, in general, is not a right thing for i18n.
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