[bug #63018] font/devps/ZD: make glyphs accessible via their Unicode spellings

[Dave]

URL:
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                 Summary: font/devps/ZD: make glyphs accessible via their
Unicode spellings
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: barx
               Submitted: Mon 05 Sep 2022 05:17:12 AM CDT
                Category: Font devps
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Mon 05 Sep 2022 05:17:12 AM CDT By: Dave <barx>
Only two glyphs in ZD have names (\[OK] and \[rh]); the rest must be accessed
with the \N escape.

But all of these glyphs have Unicode code points.  The font description file
ought to recognize those names (in \[uXXXX] format) as well.

The work here has already been done, submitted on the email list a while back
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2021-01/msg00061.html); it remains only to
integrate this into groff.

The devps/ZD that that post points to is nearly a drop-in replacement (minus a
few header lines) for font/devps/ZD in git, so I'm tempted to characterize
this ticket as a [PATCH].  However, for completeness, at least one additional
thing could be done: defining aliases (probably in tmac/ps.tmac) for \[OK] and
\[rh] so that they can also be represented respectively by \[u2713] \[u261E]
(the forms that, for instance, preconv will emit).







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