Re: [groff] Getting refer to pass through special Unicode characters

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:21:29PM +0000, Dorai Sitaram via groff wrote:
> I have some some Unicode characters with codes higher than 256 (e.g.,
> smart quotes) that 'refer' chokes on with the message "invalid input
> character code".  
> Is there a way to tell refer to just pass them through to stdout? The
> error happens even if the offending characters don't occur inside the
> refer-specific .[ and .] or in the bibliography database. They are
> just in the "surrounding" text that isn't relevant to refer anyway.

troff itself does this too, doesn't it?  I think the way you're supposed
to handle this at the moment is to run preconv before other
preprocessors, including refer.

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Colin Watson                                       [address@hidden]