Re: [Groff] Re: unicode support, part 14: unicode fonts

[Bruno Haible]

Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> >>   1) Although the man page starts with
> >>
> >> '\" t -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> >>
> >>      the groff driver is not intelligent enough to run preconv. I
> >>      have to activate the -k option explicitly.
> >
> > This is a feature.  I think it is best to not change this -- at
> > least not now.
>
> Maybe this is something that man, rather than groff, should do?
>
> Man already reads the first line of the man page, to check for the
> '\" t, etc. tag; this tells it which preprocessors to include in its
> command pipeline.  I don't think it would be too difficult to have it
> also check for the coding tag, and add the -k option to the nroff
> options when required,

I agree, Sorry, I had thought that groff, nroff or soelim were deciding
whether to run 'pic', 'tbl', etc. Since it's 'man' which decides this,
it's also 'man' which has to decide whether to run 'preconv'.

And /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh on SuSE Linux systems has to be changed as well.

Bruno