> > What else is needed to support Unicode on the input side?
>
> My suggestion would be to start by picking one of the several UTF-8
> preprocessors that have floated across the list lately, and include
> it in groff. Perhaps it's a little late to do for 1.19.2, but the
> next update could include it. That should give manpage writers a
> start and take some of the pressure off Werner, giving him time to
> really do it right. But Werner is probably going to end up doing
> most of the work, so it's his call in the end.
groff can handle only 203 input characters currently. The *top
priority* for me in converting groff to handle Unicode is to widen the
8bit input character slot to have a width of 32bit. Everything else
is much less important IMHO.
Werner
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