Re: 1.23 prints some strange error

[Walter Alejandro Iglesias]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 10:20:57PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   Latin1 iacute has the utf8 code 'í'
> and the hexadecimal code is C3AD which is "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
> TILDE" and "SOFT HYPHEN"
> 
> "groff" turns "soft hyphen" into "HYPHEN-MINUS" (0x2D)
> 
> More is in the attachment.

> file list.tr
> 
> .hw a-hÃ-
> .hw a-ño
> .hw ár-bol
> .hw cu-brÃ--a
> .hw e-té-re-o
> .hw ca-mión
> .hw ú-te-ro
> .hw pin-güi-no
> 
> Output from "preconv -e utf8  list.tr
> 
> .lf 1 list.tr
> .hw a-h\[uFFFD]-
> .hw a-\[u00F1]o
> .hw \[u00E1]r-bol
> .hw cu-br\[uFFFD]--a
> .hw e-t\[u00E9]-re-o
> .hw ca-mi\[u00F3]n
> .hw \[u00FA]-te-ro
> .hw pin-g\[u00FC]i-no
> 
> Translate "list.tr" to latin1
> 
> iconv -f utf8 -f latin1 list.tr
> 
> .hw a-h
> 
> iconv: illegal input sequence at position 7

The list.tr you're using in this example is already latin1.
Repeat what you did but this time with a UTF-8 list.tr. :-)


> 
> \[uFFFD] is called "replacement character".
> 
> -.-
> 
>   Latin1 iacute has the utf8 code 'í'
> and the hexadecimal code is C3AD which is "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
> TILDE" and "SOFT HYPHEN"
> 
> "groff" turns "soft hyphen" into "HYPHEN-MINUS" (0x2D)

-- 
Walter