> > Werner Lemberg just announced groff 1.18. Of particular interest: > > Do you know if there are any plans to support anything other than > iso-8859-1 as input character set ? > groff is able to output in utf-8, but any non-ascii in the input > is considered to be in iso-8859-1 only.
Moving to Unicode will start soon. [Note that right now I'm on vacation :-)] > I know for postscript output it may be a problem to add support of > anything outside basic latin characters; Not really. It is rather straightforward to add `virtual' fonts which have a different encoding vector in case a PS fonts provides more than 256 characters. > but for display in a terminal to have an option that could tell the > charset used for the source input, otherwise all the currently > existing man pages translated into russian, polish, greek etc will > be completly useless once man page viewers start to switch to utf-8 > for displaying. I will use Bruno Haible's libiconv if GNU's libc with iconv() isn't available. Werner -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
