> Much appreciated, Ralph. What I'm hoping to find, for some value of
> $FOO, is
>
> $ printf '\xe2\x80\x93' | $FOO -f utf-8
> \[en]
The groff glyph list (GGL) is fixed; all entity names can be found in
the source code files
src/libs/libgroff/glyphuni.cpp
src/libs/libgroff/un
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:36:34 +0100
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > \[u00E2]\[u0080]\[u0093]
> >
> > I'm not sure what that's supposed to be, but what I'd like to see is
> >
> > \[em]
>
> It's UTF-8 for U+2013, EN DASH, not M for Mike.
>
> $ printf '\xe2\x80\x93' | iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2b
Hi jkl,
> \[u00E2]\[u0080]\[u0093]
>
> I'm not sure what that's supposed to be, but what I'd like to see is
>
> \[em]
It's UTF-8 for U+2013, EN DASH, not M for Mike.
$ printf '\xe2\x80\x93' | iconv -f utf-8 -t ucs-2be | hd
20 13
I'm doing something that's got to be rare if it's been done before: I'm
dictating a groff document.
The dictation program lets me say things like "mdash", and the output
is UTF-8 (so says file(1)). I prefer to work in ASCII. preconv doesn't
do what I think I want. It produces outputs that aren
