On Monday, February 25, 2019 7:51 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Ralph,
> > Would it then make sense to include a devcp1252 > > 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? The MKS version of iconv(1) doesn’t support UTF-8; the GnuWin version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/libiconv/1.9.2-1/ does. I get printf '%s\n' '.pl 1' '\(oqquote\(cq minus: -\(mi /f/: /\(f/' | groff -Tutf8 | iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2le | hd 0000000000 2018 0071 0075 006F 0074 0065 2019 0020 0000000010 006D 0069 006E 0075 0073 003A 0020 2010 0000000020 2212 0020 002F 0066 002F 003A 0020 002F 0000000030 2044 000D 000A 0000000036 The codes look right, but I can’t seem to find a way to set UCS-2 (code page 1200) on my system, so the output to the console isn’t rendered properly. Anyway, this seems pretty complicated compared with just using a cp1252 device, even if it’s theoretically more universal. The best thing about devcp1252 is that it’s already done ... You’d think this sort of nonsense would have been fixed long ago. You would be wrong ... Thanks for the ideas. Regards, Jeff
