Re: [Groff] accented characters in MAILTO requests

[Ted Harding]

On 21-Jan-00 Gaius Mulley wrote:
> Hi Werner,
> 
>> the following doesn't work as expected:
>> 
>>  .MAILTO address@hidden "J\(:orgen H\(:agg"
>>
>> I get the following warning message from troff:
>>
>>  a special character is illegal within \X
>>
>> Can you fix this?
> 
> yes :-) - here is the patch. troff wants to encode such
> characters by the tcommand 'tC:o` and of course the device
> specific 'special' character tcommand is encoded as:
> 
> x X etc
> 
> and we cannot nest tcommands -
> so I've had to alter troff to encode any named character
> as \(name\) within the x X command. This functionality
> is turned on from within the devhtml/DESC file which

Clever stuff Gaius! Well done!
Ted.

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Date: 21-Jan-00                                       Time: 01:40:07
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