[Groff] Re: What's missing for Unicode support of groff?

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Werner,
> What exactly do you mean?  Converting UTF-8 to, say, latin-1 with
> `iconv' is already a quick-and-dirty solution.  Another possibility is
> to take a groff UTF8 font definition file and put all Unicode->glyph
> entities into a big perl (or python) table.

I mean that you had an idea to use a small filter to
# 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].
You posted  "a small perl script which does that"
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-02/msg00094.html),
that was later rewritten in C
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-06/msg00025.html).
That seems to be a way to let people start to convert documents
in latin or cyrillic encodings, if they want to move to UTF-only 
environment.
                                                                            
  Sincerely, Michail