Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support for man

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > It's not clear to me why groff should do provide the correct -T
> > option.
> 
> Because the iconv character set conversion might involve
> transliteration, e.g. U+2264 to "<=", which would disturb groff's
> nice justification of the right margin if it were done after groff.

Hmm.  I believe what you want is not let groff choose a proper -T
parameter but a new option which specifies the output character set
and encoding for a given output device.  iconv would then be run on
the glyph repertoire for the output device to get a mapping table.
Not a trivial change...

Volunteers welcome :-)


    Werner
-
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/