Re: [Groff] can't use cp866 encoding in groff-1.18

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:53:18PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > We require operation with documents in the encoding cp866/cp1125
> > (cyrillic chars 0x80..0xAF,0xE0..0xF9).
> > We have created the tmac.cp866 file with line like
> > .hcode A A a a
> > but groff remove chars 0x80..0x9F.
> > 
> > In the invalid.cc file I have found ' invalid _ char _ table [256] ',
> > where characters 0x80..0x9F marked as invalid.
> > I have corrected this table, but characters 0x80..0x82, 0x84..0x88
> > are removed in formatted document.
> > 
> > In version 1.15 this correction works.
> 
> Since version 1.15, some internal characters have been added,
> occupying code points in the 0x80..0x9F range.  You can't `correct'
> invalid.cc; until the introduction of Unicode the range 0x80..0x9F is
> really unavailable to users.  Please contact Ruslan Ermilov (CCed in
> this message) how to solve your problem.
> 
koi8-r (which FreeBSD locally supports) does not occupy this range,
so this is not a problem for us.  With cp866 this creates a problem,
but we don't use it.


Cheers,
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