Follow-up Comment #11, bug #66040 (group groff): Fuller reply later, when I've had time to digest all this, but to get the ball rolling:
[comment #10 comment #10:]
> What I gather is that what bug #42870, and you, are asking for
> is that we be able to substitute special characters for these
> ordinary ones.
Correct. (Or, to be more specific, able to substitute special characters for
the second character of each pair; .hcode has long accepted them for first of
each pair.)
> I think the only reason it hasn't been done is because there
> was no good answer for "what character code does a special
> character have"?
I figured there had to be some complication under the hood, because the UI
change seems so trivial that Werner would have knocked it out in an hour a
decade or two ago.
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