Re: [Groff] Included files are not preprocessed

[brian m. carlson]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:20:13PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> This has been discussed a few months ago on the list, IIRC, and then I
> stated that I no longer remembered why soelim comes after preconv.
> Unfortunately, this comment is still true: I can't remember the
> exact cause.
> 
>   $ groff -V -s -Kcp1251 -t -Tutf8
>   soelim | preconv -ecp1251 | tbl | troff -Tutf8 | grotty

Not that you should ever do this, but if you were using, say, UTF-16,
soelim would not be very effective unless preconv ran first.

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