Re: [Groff] Re: man page encoding

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Fortunately no heuristics is needed. Since the current behaviour (I
> think) is to assume Latin-1, it suffices to add an option to
> designate that the input is utf-8.  The option "input encoding" that
> has three possible values.

Exactly.  If you take an old man page without any `coding:' tag, groff
will treat it as ever, namely with latin-1 as input encoding.  The
`option' you want to have is the `coding:' tag, or a command line
option, or a proper locale setting.


    Werner