Re: [Groff] inability to process german umlauts

[Jan-Herbert Damm]

Larry Kollar wrote on 08.04.09:
>
> Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> Try adding the -k option to groff. This calls the preconv preprocessor, 
> which escapes all utf8 characters.

Wow! Thank you Larry. That's what i call an efficient answer! 

It would have taken me another month to come up with that.

THANKS!

Jan