> > No idea why they don't use -Tutf8, especially on a TTY.
>
> what was the first groff version with working utf8 device
> (since which version can we recommend using -Tutf8)?
Bruno contributed UTF-8 support for TTYs in version 1.16. Displaying
man pages (using ASCII or latin1 as input encoding
Dear Werner,
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
man.conf from man-1.5p has the following lines:
# For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T
# option. (Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double
# conversion to utf8.)
No idea why they don't use -Tutf8, e
> man.conf from man-1.5p has the following lines:
>
> # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T
> # option. (Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double
> # conversion to utf8.)
No idea why they don't use -Tutf8, especially on a TTY.
Werner
Dear All,
man.conf from man-1.5p has the following lines:
# For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option.
# (Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double conversion to utf8.)
configure has
# -Tlatin1 is bad when utf8 is used, but needed for groff, not for nroff
