Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > At 10:32 2002-11-12 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >> > Hexadecimal entities are not recognized at all by pod2man.
> 
> >> Yup, this is a relatively minor fix once pod2man has full mapping
> >> tables available, which is something I plan on working on as soon as I
> >> have the
> 
> > use Pod::Escapes; !
> 
> I've already looked at it and I don't believe it will be suitable for my
> purposes, but when I get to that point I'll look at it again.
> 
> There are a bunch of underlying assumptions that I have to understand
> first to really understand what needs to be done for escape processing,
> and I won't have a handle on that until I really understand how groff
> handles character set parsing and how it expects one to deal with
> non-ASCII character sets, which requires that I sit down and spend several
> days reading.

According to man groff_char, you do not have to make any conversions
to latin1 characters from 161 to 255.

>  I plan on doing that, but it pretty much has to happen
> during a work vacation, which means either the end of this month or the
> end of this month at the earliest.
> 

Regards,
        Slaven

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