Hi Jeff,
> Would it then make sense to include a devcp1252, which—though it may
> make purists nauseous—would at least give reasonable, reliable output
> for a high percentage of documents?
I don't have any valid input to that, but to wonder if there's an
recode(1) or iconv(1) available to you for translating to CP 1252 or
transliterating to UCS-2BE with the idea that the latter especially
works for all Windows versions?
$ printf '%s\n' '.pl 1' '\(oqquote\(cq minus: -\(mi /f/: /\(f/' |
> groff -Tutf8 |
> iconv -f utf8 -t ucs-2be |
> hd
00000000 20 18 00 71 00 75 00 6f 00 74 00 65 20 19 00 20 | ..q.u.o.t.e
.. |
00000010 00 6d 00 69 00 6e 00 75 00 73 00 3a 00 20 20 10 |.m.i.n.u.s.:.
.|
00000020 22 12 00 20 00 2f 00 66 00 2f 00 3a 00 20 00 2f |".. ./.f./.:.
./|
00000030 20 44 00 0a | D..|
00000034
$
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Cheers, Ralph.
