[Groff] Re: viewing UTF-8 encoded man pages

[Bruno Haible]

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Hmm. Long ago I added some code to man that sufficed to make some
> Russian users happy. Forgot all details. See man-iconv.c.
> (Maybe that threw in an invocation of iconv when reading the pages?)

That worked because KOI8-R, like ISO-8859-1, consists of only 256 characters,
and they have all width 1. For Unicode in general, you need the other
trick contained in groff-utf8.tar.gz.

Bruno