> 1. When I run groff with -Dutf8, it complains that gpreconv is not > available. This can be worked around by creating a soft link to > preconv.
This is a bug, now fixed in the CVS. Thanks for the report. > 2. The more serious problem is this: -Dutf8 is not pervasive > through .so or .nx. It only applies to the file the main file that > groff is called on. See this thread http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00058.html and this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2006-01/msg00022.html and please comment. Actually, I've even started the latter, but I gave up: Working with iconv is a nasty thing... Werner