Re: [Groff] Re: experimental multibyte support

[Fumitoshi UKAI]

At Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:44:39 +0100,
Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:39:43AM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> > Previous patch 1.18-6.u1 has a bug regarding `uXXXX'.
> > It failed to handle some groff glyph name, such as `ua' in devhtml.
> > This is fixed in version 1.18-6.u2. This version also works
> > groff -Thtml for Japanese.
> > 
> > At Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:02:49 +0200 (CEST),
> > Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 
> > > Very good!  Hopefully, you can assist during the transition to
> > > Unicode.
> > 
> > Yes, I'll try.
> >  
> > > >  - \[u<code>] support, where code is unicode.
> > > >    So, you can write \[u3042] for `HIRAGANA LETTER A'
> > > 
> > > Uh, oh, please be careful.  \[...] are glyph entities, not input
> > > character codes.  Please read the article
> > > 
> > >   Re: [Groff] Some thoughts on glyphs
> > > 
> > > from Aug. 26th in the mailing list archive how I will support Unicode
> > > on the glyph side.
> > 
> > Oh, I missed to read the article.
> > Ah, my patch just support glyph name \[uXXXX] for glyph for Unicode
> > character U+XXXX which is not a composite character.
> > To avoid conflict with groff glyph names, it uses negative index for
> > glyph for unicode characters, where positive index for groff glyph names.
> > I'm not sure this is good solution, maybe there are more good one.
> > Anyway, it seems to work for me (at least Japanese).
> 
> Now that groff 1.18.1 has been released, I need to resync the Japanese
> patch anyway so I should probably merge this into the Debian groff
> package. Have you reached agreement on whether this additional glyph is
> a good idea?

I've merged multibyte patch to 1.18.1 
http://people.debian.org/~ukai/groff/

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI