>> $ groff -V -s -Kcp1251 -t -Tutf8
>> soelim | preconv -ecp1251 | tbl | troff -Tutf8 | grotty
>
> Not that you should ever do this, but if you were using, say,
> UTF-16, soelim would not be very effective unless preconv ran first.
Indeed. However, it's just a matter of taste to handle funny preconv
and soelim cases with either
soelim | groff -K ...
(current groff) or with
preconv -e... | groff -s ...
(patched groff).[1] Such pipes even work on Windows (which can handle
text files only in pipes, AFAIK).
So I would follow what people actually prefer. Theoretically, I could
even add a command line switch to groff which decides the position of
preconv and groff in the command pipe, but this is perhaps too
extreme.
Werner
[1] It would be a good idea to document this, BTW :-)
