Re: [Groff] ubuntu, groff and utf-8

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Readin info groff I found how to do utf-8 output, but nothing about
> input :(

This is correct, unfortunately.  groff doesn't yet support UTF8 input.
You have to convert your file first to something groff can understand.

Below is a small perl script which does that.  Note that it doesn't
`fake' glyphs, this is, it doesn't construct, say, `Amacron' from an
`A' and a `macron' glyph.  Any volunteer for this?


    Werner


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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
# uni2groff.pl
#
# Convert input in UTF8 encoding to something groff 1.19 or greater
# can understand.  It simply converts all Unicode values >= U+0080
# to the form \[uXXXX].
#
# Usage:
#
#   perl uni2groff.pl < infile > outfile
#
# You need perl 5.6 or greater.

use strict;

binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");

while (<>) {
  s/(\P{InBasicLatin})/sprintf("\\[u%04X]", ord($1))/eg;
  print;
}

# EOF