Re: [Groff] inability to process german umlauts

[Chris Schaller]

Jan,

encountered this one, too. What's your fileencoding in vim (:set
fileencoding?). You might want to try to set it either to utf-8 or
latin-1. Latter worked for me despite having encoding set to utf-8. So
you are experiencing a vim configuration issue here...

See also :h encoding and :h fileencoding in vim.

HTH,
  Chris

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jan-Herbert Damm <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> if somebody can tell me where to start digging into the following problem i am
> grateful:
>
> I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new system
> changing the  locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write texts.
> German umlauts now produce the following errormessages:
>
> test.mom:136: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in
> transparent throughput
> test.mom:139: can't translate character code 194 to special character `^A' in
> transparent throughput
> test.mom:139: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in
> transparent throughput
> test.mom:139: can't translate character code 195 to special character `~A' in
> transparent throughput
> test.mom:139: can't translate character code 188 to special character `14' in
> transparent throughput
>
> The resulting ps-file contains unwanted combinations of characters mostly
> containing an 'A' with '~' on top.
>
> Processing a file backupped from the old system does not produce these
> problems (vim's ":set all" output shows "encoding=utf8" there as it does in
> test.mom here)
>
> My groff ist version 1.20.1 which i compiled after the generic groff 1.18.1
> from my ubuntu 8.10 produced this encoding problem to begin with.
>
> "$locale" outputs to:
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> I should add that i am haunted by encoding problems. I have incomprehensible
> errors such as that if i put umlauts in my ".muttrc" the reply-mails in vim 
> have
> wrong umlauts but if the ".muttrc" is clear of umlauts everything is fine. Or
> that a non gui-terminal (via strg-alt-f1) prints all umlauts exept small 'ö'
> (oe) and small 'ä' (ae).
>
> I am aware that this is a problem that might have been reported before but
> i am unable to find answers since i can't pin down the problem in a sensible
> way. And i am very frustrated.
>
> Any hints welcome.
>
> Jan
>
> --
> Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas.
> (Dank an JP, ML mutt-users)
>
>
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