Re: [groff] devutf8 on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:37:06 +0000
> 
> > With the code page set to 65001 (UTF-8),
> 
> Using `chcp' or changing the registry?

I don't think it matters.

> https://ss64.com/nt/chcp.html suggests CMD may have trouble compared to
> Powershell?

It isn't CMD that writes the text, its grotty.

> > Any ideas as to what could be happening?
> 
> What if you have a C program that writes to a `binary' stdout a UTF-8
> byte sequence and run that at CMD?  That removes groff.

In general, you will see the same.  As I said, you need to use Unicode
APIs to reliably write UTF-8 to the Windows console device.