Found a solution! In the sourced file, instead of
.char ∖ \[u005C]
use
.char \[u2216] \[u005C]
--d
On Monday, March 2, 2015 2:56 PM, "carsten.ku...@arcor.de"
<carsten.ku...@arcor.de> wrote:
Dorai Sitaram <ds26...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had the following
> .char ? \[u005C]
> in a file (the first ? is U+2216, or set-minus) and used set-minus within
> the same file, and it works fine.
> However, when I place the .char call in a different file, and source it via
> .so or .mso, occurrences of set-minus in the sourcing file don't translate.
> This happenis only when the first argument of .char is non-ascii Unicode.
> Is this expected behavior?
> Thanks,--d
If you put preconv after soelim it should not matter if the file is included or
not:
soelim files ... | preconv | troff ...
