On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:21:29PM +0000, Dorai Sitaram via groff wrote: > I have some some Unicode characters with codes higher than 256 (e.g., > smart quotes) that 'refer' chokes on with the message "invalid input > character code". > Is there a way to tell refer to just pass them through to stdout? The > error happens even if the offending characters don't occur inside the > refer-specific .[ and .] or in the bibliography database. They are > just in the "surrounding" text that isn't relevant to refer anyway.
troff itself does this too, doesn't it? I think the way you're supposed to handle this at the moment is to run preconv before other preprocessors, including refer. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
