Hello Branden, with your helpful comments and detailed reply I was able to identify the culprit: In my shell environment I have set GROFF_ENCODING to utf-8.
All tests pass as expected when running: %/usr/bin/env -u GROFF_ENCODING make -j8 check -----8<----- SNIP -----8<----- ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU roff 1.23.0.rc3 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 162 # PASS: 158 # SKIP: 2 # XFAIL: 2 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ I'd be happy to answer all your questions in your previous email if you see value in it. Otherwise in the interest of your valuable time I'll keep it short :) Cheers Alexis