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Re: [Groff] Bug: HTML driver and accented characters


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] Bug: HTML driver and accented characters
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:42:30 +0100 (CET)

> For academic interest (and testing the new hyphenation capabilities
> [1]) I just tried a couple of Spanish documents with the HTML
> driver. And what I saw wasn't pretty. It ate up all the accented
> characters!

Small example, please.  Processing groff_char.man works more or less,
so there is perheps another problem.

> i think that the HTML driver should output all characters in some
> unicode vector (perhaps UTF-8?), add the appropriate META tag and
> let the browser deal with the display, Even the popular text based
> browsers can handle unicode.

Indeed, the fonts currently used with HTML are not optimal.  I'll try
to improve that in the next days.


    Werner

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