> > b) Recognize the encoding according to a note in the first line
> > '\" -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
> > groff will then emit errors when it is fed input that is
> > non-ASCII and without coding: marker, so that man page
> > maintainers are notified that they need to add the coding:
> > marker.
>
> This looks like it would conflict with Emacs usage.
Why? This has been discussed already on the groff list: The plan is
indeed to allow emacs-like tagging of the file to set the encoding.
> I like the idea, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to make it into
> a groff request?
No. I plan to make groff accept only ASCII, latin-1 (for backwards
compatibility), and UTF8. The tag in the header makes groff call a
preprocessor which inserts a proper encoding filter.
Werner
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