Re: [Groff] unicode characters in macro names?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Dorai,

> Is this planned? Section 5.4 of the manual suggests that "almost any
> printable character" can be used, with the exception of spaces and
> such, but I found that even an ordinary-looking character like the
> pilcrow (U+00b6) creates error.

What encoding is your input?  Can you give an example?  This worked for
me.

    $ nroff
    .pl 1
    .de ¶
    .ce
    ..
    .¶
    foo
    ^D
                                   foo

    $

Now, that's actually two bytes as far as nroff is concerned, UTF-8
encoding here means it gets 0xc2 0xb6.  But I can give it the single
0xb6 too and it still works.

    $ printf '%s\n' '.pl 1' '.de @' .ce .. .@ foo |
    > perl -pe 's/@/\xb6/g' |
    > nroff
                                   foo

    $

Cheers, Ralph.