Hi Carsten, Carsten Kunze wrote on Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 01:07:55PM +0100:
> in groff_char.7 it is specified that U+0303 is output for \(a~ but > actually U+007E is output. Why does the output (of nroff -Tutf8) > differ from the specification? It seems to me that you misread the documentation. It reads: Accents ------- The composite request is used to map most of the accents to non-spacing glyph names; the values given in parentheses are the original (spacing) ones. Output Input PostScript Unicode Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ \[a~] tilde u0303 (u007E) tilde accent That means you get U+007E when using the character directly - which certainly makes sense. The combining (non-spacing) variant shown before the parenthesis only applies in the context of the .composite request. Yours, Ingo
