Re: [Groff] can't translate character code 229 to special character `oa' in transparent throughput

[Deri James]

On Wed 10 Jun 2015 16:19:24 mikkel meinike wrote:
> I just compiled groff from source and I used pdfmom in a way I have done
> many times before but this time there was a strange problem that I have not
> tried before. The error massages was printed into the document.
> 
> This command is causing the problem
> $ pdfmom udspil.mom >udspil.pdf
> Is this a bug? Is there any way around this problem.
> 
> With this command
> 
> $ pdfroff -mom -mpdfmark udspil.mom >udspil.pdf
> 
> I am able to compile the doc without the error massages. But now there are
> some mistakes in the page structure. (at least that can be fixed with pdftk)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Mikkel

Hi Mikkel,

There is an error in pdfmom. Please change line 66 to:-

    system("groff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 -mom -z $cmdstring 2>&1 | grep '^\\.ds' 
| groff -Tpdf -mom - $cmdstring");

The grep is now '^\\.ds' it was '^.ds' so it matched the name of your document 
(udspil)!!

Cheers

Deri