Follow-up Comment #10, bug #66675 (group groff): Clarification:
At 2025-02-02T20:46:49-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Usually, yes. The "progress toward a major goal" created an
> exception; the machinery that writes the content of a `device` request
> or an `\X` escape sequence needs to:
>
> 1. Pass through valid Unicode special character escape sequences,
> including composite ones (see groff_char(7)), as-is;
>
> 2. Attempt to translate any other special character to form #1 above;
>
> 3. Warn if #2 fails.
3. Warn if #2 fails, and discard the bogus special character escape
sequence. If you demand that your bogosity pass through, you must
engage expert mode with the `output` request or `\!` escape
sequence.
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