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Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [groff] Regularize (sub)section cross references.
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:45:06 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22)

> > I think it would be better to extend groff to expose the
> > underlying locale-aware C case-transformation functions,
> > and _not_ try maintaining our own mappings.

> Indeed.  I don't think maintaining our own mappings is viable.
> It just won't work, there are too many characters in Unicode.

I'm against this whole locale thing.  It needlessly complicates
groff and will probably fail when reading foreign manual pages
in a "C" locale.  I'd rather have the authors of foreign
language manual pages simply add the conversion string
for that language at the top of the document source.





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