On 10-Dec-2014 18:40:20 Dorai Sitaram wrote: > Is this planned? Section 5.4 of the manual suggests that "almost any > printable character" can be used, with the exception of spaces and such, but > I found that even an ordinary-looking character like the pilcrow (U+00b6) > creates error. > --d
I'm pretty sure that this refers to "almost any printable character in the standard ASCII character set", and not to anything that could be printable from extended character sets -- not even a extended ASCII set such as iso-8859-1 (Western Eurpoean) with codes going up to 255. In this extended ASCII, the pilcrow has code B6[hex] = 266[decimal]. If I enter (and run troff using ms macros): .de ¶ .XP .. .¶ This is a .XP .br extended paragraph the resulting output is .¶This is a .XP extended paragraph which of course erroneously includes "¶", and also results in an error message "name expected (got a magic token)". So I would say: stick to ASCII (non-extended); and also note that Section 5.4 of the Manual gives the invalid characters in ASCII or EBCDIC, of which the pilcrow is one; and states that it would be "non-trivial to extend gtroff to cover Unicode or other character sets and encodings that use characters of these ranges." With best wishes, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 10-Dec-2014 Time: 19:50:27 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------
