Re: [Groff] Special characters and font escapes

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have a file containing the following and am viewing it with groff
> 1.18.1 in an en_US.UTF-8 environment.
> 
> .SH "AUTHOR"
> .PP
> \fBSebastian\fR \fBDr\(:oge\fR
> .sp -1n
> .IP "" 3n
> Author.
> .SH "COPYRIGHT"
> Copyright \(co 2005 Sebastian Dr\(:oge
> 
> The second instance of "Dr\(:oge" displays correctly, but the
> "\fBDr\(:oge\fR" instance does not (depending on which X shell I try
> it in, it either displays a replacement character, blank space, or
> some other character).
> 
> Is this a known issue? Any way to work around it?

I can't repeat that.  Saving the above snippet as `test.man' and
adding `.TH' as the very first line, the command

  groff -Tutf8 -man test.man

works just fine, emitting correct UTF8 at the console.


    Werner