On 22/07/17 11:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> If the order of the groff pipeline is responsible for Erich's problem
>> (soelim needs to come before preconv), is this something to change or
>> something to document?
>
> Change has been mooted in the past, including by Werner.
> Some old relevant thre
On 22/07/17 21:17, Ted Harding wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 15:32 -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
>>> On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote:
... Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and
pretend other enco
"E. Hoffmann" wrote:
|Am Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:28:04 -0400
|schrieb Peter Schaffter :
|
|[...]
|>> $ soelim foo | preconv | groff -Tutf8 | grep .
|>> foo: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç
|>> bar: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç
|>> $
|>> $ groff -V -Tutf8 -sk foo
|>>
On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 15:32 -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> > On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote:
> > > ... Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and
> > > pretend other encodings don't exist?
> >
> > Not really
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote:
> > ... Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and
> > pretend other encodings don't exist?
>
> Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the
> dominant
Really? I didn't know that. Although I haven't used a Windows machine for
any serious use in years, and I'm quite happy to uphold that streak.
VirtualBox-emulated environments not withstanding...
I'll spare this mailing list another aimless anti-Microsoft rant. Sure it's
heard plenty before, haha.
On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote:
> I was bitten by preconv(1) quite recently, actually. Gonna back Ingo
> here. Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and
> pretend other encodings don't exist?
Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the
dominant OS
Woops.
Never mind.
Mike
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 05:00:37PM +0200, E. Hoffmann wrote:
> > Am Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:28:04 -0400
> > schrieb Peter Schaffter :
> >
> > [...]
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 05:00:37PM +0200, E. Hoffmann wrote:
> Am Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:28:04 -0400
> schrieb Peter Schaffter :
>
> [...]
> > > $ soelim foo | preconv | groff -Tutf8 | grep .
Is there a reason the preferred solution isn't
$ groff -k -s -Tutf8 foo
?
see man 1 gr
Hey, Ingo,
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
|Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:30:36PM +0200:
|
|> In my humble opinion preconv has to go as such,
|> i just do not know yet. Just talking.
|
|So much talk...
SIIGHH!!!
|In mandoc, i completed that work in October 2014:
|
| http://m
Am Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:28:04 -0400
schrieb Peter Schaffter :
[...]
> > $ soelim foo | preconv | groff -Tutf8 | grep .
> > foo: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç
> > bar: ÄÖÜ SS ÒÓÔÕŎŌ Ç äöü ß òóôõŏō ç
> > $
> > $ groff -V -Tutf8 -sk foo
> > preconv foo | soelim | troff -Tutf8
I was bitten by preconv(1) quite recently, actually. Gonna back Ingo here.
Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and pretend other
encodings don't exist? Squash everything into the same shuttle as EBCDIC
and blast it into the sun.
Heh, another recent (and unpleasant) experience
Hi,
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:30:36PM +0200:
> In my humble opinion preconv has to go as such,
> i just do not know yet. Just talking.
So much talk...
In mandoc, i completed that work in October 2014:
http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/preconv.c#rev1.9
"commit me
Hi Peter,
> If the order of the groff pipeline is responsible for Erich's problem
> (soelim needs to come before preconv), is this something to change or
> something to document?
Change has been mooted in the past, including by Werner.
Some old relevant threads.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive
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