Re: native UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 *input* support for mandoc(1)

2014-10-27 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Hi Ingo, Ingo Schwarze writes: In ports land, many manual pages contain occasional non-ASCII characters - even though i don't consider that a particularly smart idea, but let's face it, those characters *are* out there. I agree that this is appropriate for mandoc to try to handle for a

native UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 *input* support for mandoc(1)

2014-10-26 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, you probably know that mandoc(1) has been providing a -Tutf8 *output* mode for more than three years now. To *input* non-ASCII characters, however, encoding them as \[u] roff(7) esacape sequences, also documented in mandoc_char(7), is required. In ports land, many manual pages contain