Re: [Groff] PostScript question

[Peter Schaffter]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004, Deri James wrote:
> On Saturday 30 Oct 2004 03:35, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004, Ted Harding wrote:
> > > Some earlier (but relatively recent) versions of grops did
> > > output text strings as hex-encoded (recognisable by being
> > > encapsulated in angle brackets: "<...>"). Nothing wrong with
> > > this, except that's it's not very human-readable, therefore
> > > irritating at times.
> >
> > Interesting.  Testing the file my bug reporter sent with groff
> > 1.81.1 (downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff) and mom 1.4.1
> >
> >     ./groff/bin/groff groff -M ~/Testing/groff/share/groff/1.18.1/tmac/
> > -mom -Tps letter.mom | less
> >
> > I am unable to reproduce the PostScript file with hex strings
> > instead of text.
> 
> I believe the hex strings are generated when 'grops' thinks it has multi-byte 
> input characters (i.e. unicode).

I suspected that might be the case.  Thanks.

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Peter Schaffter
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