Re: [Groff] Using non-ASCII characters in mom

[Deri James]

On Fri 25 Apr 2014 11:35:42 Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, Per Edin wrote:
> > I'm having some trouble getting non-ASCII characters to work in my
> > mom-based documents. With pdfmom -k I get them to work without problem
> > in running text, but, when I use them inside quotes in .HEADING and
> > .TITLE I receive errors similar to:
> > 
> > noname.mom:60: can't translate character code 229 to special character
> > `oa' in transparent throughput
> > noname.mom:60: can't translate character code 229 to special character
> > `oa' in transparent throughput
> > noname.mom:60: can't translate character code 246 to special character
> > `:o' in transparent throughput
> > 
> > I'm lost, ideas to fix this are welcome. :)
> 
> The error messages are a by-product of PDF processing (TITLE and
> HEADING assign PDF bookmarks) and can safely be ignored--unless your
> output is incorrect.  If that's the case, post again with whatever
> additional details will help figure out what's going on.

I believe the problem is that groff has already converted the non-ascii to a 
"node" and 
it is this which causes the problem. If you can provide an example I can 
investigate 
further.

Cheers 

Deri