Re: [Groff] Still No Luck Accessing Characters From Zapf Dingbats (Or Any Other Strange Font)

[Werner LEMBERG]

> This is the right sequence – however, your example uses Unicode quotes
> (U+2019) as delimiters.  To make that work, you have to add option`-k'
> to groff to call the `preconv' preprocessor, for example
> 
>   groff -k -Tps foo.tr > foo.ps
> 
> or
> 
>   groff -k -Tpdf foo.tr > foo.pdf
> 
> (assuming the above sequence is put into a file called `foo.tr' with
> UTF-8 encoding) since groff's native input encoding is 8bit only,
> normally latin1.

There might be another problem: missing fonts.  Both sequences don't
actually embed the ZapfDingbats font into its output, relying on the
PS (or PDF) viewer to provide the fonts.  However, this isn't a
groff problem per se.  See the recent thread

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2016-05/msg00004.html

for more on this topic.


    Werner