Re: [Groff] .hcode request with german umlauts inside utf8 input file

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Carsten,

> Ok, I'll do that.

Post the URL to the list when it's done;  will help someone reading the
list archives in the future.

> > PS: A clean solution currently is to put `.hw' lines into a separate
> > file that uses the proper 8bit encoding, and that file gets then
> > included with `.so'.  Since `preconv' gets called before `.soelim'
> > in groff's pipeline, different encodings won't clash.
> 
> That's exactly what I did yesterday after the discussion with Ralph. I
> really do not like latin1 coded files put for a one-line one-purpose
> file it is ok :)

You could use .pso to read in an `iconv -t iso-8859-1' of your
UTF-8-encoded file.  :-)

Cheers, Ralph.