Re: [Groff] inability to process german umlauts

[Larry Kollar]

Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:

> I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new  
> system
> changing the  locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write  
> texts.
> German umlauts now produce the following errormessages:

Try adding the -k option to groff. This calls the preconv  
preprocessor, which escapes all utf8 characters.

-- Larry