Re: [Groff] Hyphenation with Russian

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I  have  found  all  the  files:  koi8-r.tmac,  ru.tmac  and
> hyphen.ru (in the koi8-r  encoding).  The  koi8-r.tmac  file
> consists of lines like:
> 
>   .trin \[char186]\[u2568]
> 
> and  I believe it maps UTF-8 to KOI8-R, hence I cocluded the
> input file should be in the UTF-8  encoding.

This is not correct.  groff has a fixed set of built-in entities like
\[aq] or \[em] -- this list won't be changed any more.  All other
entities get algorithmic names of the form \[uXXXX] and some other
forms based on the Adobe Glyph List conventions; please look this up
in the groff info manual if you are interested.  It has *no relation*
to the used input encoding except the fact that such glyph names in
its simplest form are using the Unicode character code as part of its
name.

> But alas!  it didn't work, reporting errors like this:
> 
>   can't find special character `u2568'
> 
> But  these characters are mentioned in the koi8-r.tmac file,
> so I don't understand what happens...

Try with a koi8-r encoded input file!  If that works (this is, you get
proper hyphenation), use groff's -k (or -K) option to provide proper
UTF-8 input file support, as mentioned already in my previous mail.


    Werner