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Re: [Groff] UTF-8 Readiness


From: Jim Gifford
Subject: Re: [Groff] UTF-8 Readiness
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:30:40 -0800
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Werner,
On of my guys did some testing of the current cvs and ran into same issues. Here they are

The relocation stuff segfaults, so I had to disable it by editing src/libs/libgroff/Makefile.sub.

   New Groff is still not able to format Japanese manuals.

The "-k" and encoding autoguessing is a bad idea because not every manual page is tagged properly (e.g., the passwd(5) manual page is not tagged). Everyone will end up using -K with the explicit encoding specified (and, in fact, that's Man's, not user's responsibility).


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