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2010-06-11 Thread Deri James
On Friday 11 June 2010 13:34:36 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> So either something has changed the numerical encoding of \[ua] in > >> groff (but despite searching I have found no clue), or possibly the > >> input characters "\[ua]" were mis-interpreted as "\[uA]". Could > >> this have something to do

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tadziu, > > As a possible further clue: I've run the same test now on a couple > > of really old machines, wth earlier versions of groff. Both gave the > > correct result: > > > > GNU troff version 1.10 > > GNU troff version 1.16.1 > > Strange: I just compiled groff 1.18.1 from sources,

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Denis M. Wilson
It works as documented with groff 1.20.1: ua = \f[S]\[ua]\f[] uA = \f[S]\[uA]\f[] I am using the URW version of Symbol Denis

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> As a possible further clue: I've run the same test now on a couple > of really old machines, wth earlier versions of groff. Both gave the > correct result: > > GNU troff version 1.10 > GNU troff version 1.16.1 Strange: I just compiled groff 1.18.1 from sources, and it does not show the pro

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Jun-10 12:34:36, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>> So either something has changed the numerical encoding of \[ua] in >>> groff (but despite searching I have found no clue), or possibly the >>> input characters "\[ua]" were mis-interpreted as "\[uA]". Could >>> this have something to do with locale?

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> So either something has changed the numerical encoding of \[ua] in >> groff (but despite searching I have found no clue), or possibly the >> input characters "\[ua]" were mis-interpreted as "\[uA]". Could >> this have something to do with locale? > > It doesn't seem to be as simple as them bei

Re: [Groff] arrowup

2010-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ted, > So either something has changed the numerical encoding of \[ua] > in groff (but despite searching I have found no clue), or possibly > the input characters "\[ua]" were mis-interpreted as "\[uA]". > Could this have something to do with locale? It doesn't seem to be as simple as them be

Re: [Groff] .rd request

2010-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I wrote: > But this appears to be a bug in groff with the introduction of > preconv. Consider > > $ printf 'foo\n\n' | > > preconv | > > strace -fe trace=read nroff <(printf 'a\n.rd\nb\n') 2> >(grep > 'read(0,') | > > grep . > a b > [pid 4344] read(0, > [pid

Re: [Groff] .rd request

2010-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pierre-Jean, > With your help, Ralf, and the last command line you've given, I've > discovered that my problem came from .lf request added by preconv: > * My bashrc was containing GROFF_ENCODING="UTF-8" > * I thought that commenting this line and sourcing > bashrc would remove it, bu