> It is clear that there must be a recode somewhere.
> It is not clear to me that it would be preferable to do this in nroff.
> One of the advantages of iconv in man is that it works today, also
> with old *roff. I am unhappy with recode in groff.
> Always when programs fiddle with one's bits one has to struggle
> to tell them to keep their hands off.
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.
> I like a groff that has by default output in the same character set
> as input. Of course it needs to know whether the input is in an
> 8-bit encoding or something more complicated, but in the common case
> of 8-bit encoding and plain text output it may not even be necessary
> to know anything about the character set. Thus, things would "just
> work" with ISO 8859-2 or KOI-8U even when the user does not set any
> locale.
I won't do that. groff's preprocessor should convert everything to
utf8.
Werner
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