Hi Everybody,
U+F8E8 seems to be located in the Private Use Area and, at least on my
system, shows a Tibetan "Huu" (consonant h with subscript u + a-chung).
The combination u+a-chung has its own code point, U+0F75 the use of
which is discouraged.
Best, Oliver.
On 15/03/2026 14:07, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
Well, probably not voodoo but very strange to me. Try this:
echo "\\\f[U-S]\[uF8E8]\f" | groff -Tpdf | pdftotext - -
And if you see the same as me, you'll see a white circle with an
intersection symbol in it.
Now, try instead and send the same output to a file:
echo "\\\f[U-S]\[uF8E8]\f" | groff -Tpdf >t.pdf
Open the file in your preferred pdf-viewer and you should see a circle with
an 'R' in it (registered trademark?), i.e. a completely different glyph.
pdftotext should not be responsible because groff has already done its job.
If you see the same, could you explain this to me - or maybe just slap my
face so it points in the right direction ;)
Regards,
Morten
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