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Re: [Groff] man page encoding


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] man page encoding
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:50:14 +0200 (CEST)

> > The tag in the header makes groff call a
> > preprocessor which inserts a proper encoding filter.
> 
> Which means that man should not call iconv when output is to groff,
> while it should call iconv when output goes elsewhere.

???  Nothing prevents man of calling iconv by itself to produce UTF-8,
then passing the converted data to groff without activating the
preprocessor.


    Werner




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