To answer my own question: It seems that preconv is not guessing the correct encoding from the file with a single word in it. If I specify -K utf-8 everything works OK.
preconv -v reports: GNU preconv (groff) version 1.23.0 with iconv support and with uchardet support Is this an expected shortcoming of preconv - that if a file contains just a single accented character, it won't guess it correctly? The original file it failed on was a 2-page pdf, which has the word kataskeuê in the middle of it. Robert. On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:52 AM Robert Goulding <robert.d.gouldin...@nd.edu> wrote: > I have been trying to figure this out all morning! I have a handout with > the word "kataskeuê" in it. Every time I try to compile it (groff -Tpdf -k > -ms) I get the warning: warning: special character 'u0053_0326' not defined > (Same if I go the ps2pdf route) > > > Try and compile this minimal file > > .LP > kataskeuê > > Do you get a warning, and a weird character in the pdf? > > But *this *minimal file compiles just fine: > > .LP > kataskeuê êéè > > No warnings, all the characters come out correct. What could be the > reason? (Using groff 1.23.0) > > R. > > -- > Robert Goulding > Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; > Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, > Fellow, Medieval Institute, > University of Notre Dame. > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
