Re: [Groff] ubuntu, groff and utf-8

[Andrey Borzenkov]

> This is correct, unfortunately.  groff doesn't yet support UTF8 input.
> You have to convert your file first to something groff can understand.
>
> Below is a small perl script which does that.

This does not work (Mdk 10.2rc1, groff 1.19 with some mdk patches but they are 
unlikely be the cause). Manuals on mdk are in koi8-r, my locale ru_RU.UTF-8.

bzcat /usr/share/man/ru/man8/rpm.8.bz2 | iconv -f koi8-r | utf4groff | groff 
-Tutf8 -mandoc

<standard input>:3: warning: can't find special character `u041D'
<standard input>:3: warning: can't find special character `u0410'
<standard input>:3: warning: can't find special character `u0417'
...
<standard input>:8: warning: can't find special character `u044B'
<standard input>:8: warning: can't find special character `u0438_0306'
<standard input>:8: warning: can't find special character `u0431'
...

-andrey

PS please Cc me I am not on this list.

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