Make sure you have GhostScript installed as well, especially if you plan on producing PDF versions of your documents:
brew install ghostscript And yes, what Ralph said will fix the encoding issue. =) $ echo 'Hasta mañana. 32 años. ¡Está bien! ¡Sí!' > ~/Desktop/test.roff $ groff -Tutf8 test.roff Hasta mañana. 32 años. ¡Está bien! ¡SÃ! $ groff -Tutf8 -k test.roff Hasta mañana. 32 años. ¡Está bien! ¡Sí! As a side-note, you should use Homebrew to update whatever you can. Apple ships macOS with woefully outdated versions of *everything*, yet nobody knows why... On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 00:26, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi jonathan, > > > I have seen some people use a `preconv`command or a `-k` flag to > > convert their files for utf-8 into latin1 within the groff command. > > But the build I have on my Mac computer doesn’t seem to have this > > (version 1.19.2). > > I don't have any Apple hardware myself, but I understand Homebrew is > used by many users to get up to date versions of the software Apple > ships. It supplies groff 1.22.4. > > https://brew.sh/ > https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/groff > > -- > Cheers, Ralph. > >