soelim does not process .INCLUDE Denis On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:54:13 +0200 "E. Hoffmann" <erichhoffm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:44:49 -0400 > schrieb Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca>: > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017, E. Hoffmann wrote: > [...] > > > When I enter unicode, like: > > > > > > ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç > > > > [...] > > > But if I include the same characters in a file with the .INCLUDE > > > macro, they disappear. Processed with -P-bcu -Tutf8, they show up > > > like wrong encoded strings. > > > > This one's a mystery. I created and processed your test file, with > > the same result. INCLUDE isn't a macro, it's an unmodified alias of > > the .so request. Clearly I, too, am missing something. > > > > Does anyone know why .so isn't passing unicode characters through? > > Peter thank you for looking into it. > > I'm using groff for a long time now, always using plain groff > (*.tr) and the ms macro package. IIRC when groff introduced the use > of unicode, it was with the -k switch. Back then I had the same > problem with sourced files, and I processed my files with the > soelim-pipe: > > soelim example.tr | preconv -eutf8 | groff -P-bcu -Tutf8 > > Created an always-to-be-used script and never changed that, because > of lack of need and sheer lazyness. > > Now when I take that: > > ------------------------------------example.tr-----------\ > > .pl 2v > UNICODE: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç > .br > .so identical_string.tr > > ---------------------------------------------------------/ > > Processed with plain > > groff -Tutf8 example.tr > > it yields > > UNICODE: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç > UNICODE: ÃÃà SS ÃÃÃÃÅŠà äöü à òóôõÅŠç > > but with > > soelim example.tr | preconv -eutf8 | groff -P-bcu -Tutf8 > > example.tr.soelim.txt > > I get a correct > > UNICODE: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç > UNICODE: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç > > > With ms it behaves similiar, with mom it does not. > > I'm far from being an expert. This said, could it be that the > problem lies in the handling of soelim and preconv? > > > Cheers, > > erich > > --
