Re: weird behaviour of groff / preconv

[Ulrich Lauther]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 02:05:39AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
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> > It seems groff expands to b\[u00F6]\fPld instead of b\[u00F6]ld\fP.
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> If I print out the text using .tm, I get
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>   \f3b\[u00f6\fPld]
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> so it seems that the string argument scanner stops at the first "]",
> passing "b\[u00f6" to MyBLD as argument, which then results in the
> "missing ']'" error.  If you quote the argument, the scanner correctly
> collects all text until the ending quote, and then terminates with
> the following "]", giving the correct argument "b\[u00f6]ld".
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> 
Yes. But is this to be considered a bug, or a feature?