Hello All,

from this list (I can't find it anymore) I got a brilliant recipe to
make plaintext-tables like so:

=====
.TS
box tab(|);
cb|cb|cb|cb.
Year | Hurricane | Deaths | Location
.T&
l|c|c|c.
1780|Great Hurricane of 1780|27,500+|Antilles
1998|Hurricane Mitch|18,974 - 21,000|Honduras
1900|Galveston Hurricane|8,000 - 12,000|Cuba, Texas
1974|Hurricane Fifi|8,000 - 10,000|Honduras, Belize
1930|Dominican Republic Hurricane|2,000 - 8,000|Antilles, D.R.
1963|Hurricane Flora|7,186 - 8,000|Haiti, Cuba
.TE

then pipe this text to:

tbl | nroff -Tascii | uniq > output.file
=====

lately tried:

tbl | groff -k -Tutf8 | uniq > output.file 

which works fine and I get german umlauts. But while "cat" will show me the
output correctly "vim" or even "less" will not.

I don't know where to start looking into the nature of this problem. I am
shure there is a simple explanation.

help appreciated greatly, sorry for being OT  

jan

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