Re: New groff 1.18 release supports ISO 6429 SGR sequence

[Werner LEMBERG <wl@xxxxxxx>]

> > Werner Lemberg just announced groff 1.18. Of particular interest:
> 
> Do you know if there are any plans to support anything other than
> iso-8859-1 as input character set ?
> groff is able to output in utf-8, but any non-ascii in the input
> is considered to be in iso-8859-1 only.

Moving to Unicode will start soon.  [Note that right now I'm on
vacation :-)]

> I know for postscript output it may be a problem to add support of
> anything outside basic latin characters;

Not really.  It is rather straightforward to add `virtual' fonts which
have a different encoding vector in case a PS fonts provides more than
256 characters.

> but for display in a terminal to have an option that could tell the
> charset used for the source input, otherwise all the currently
> existing man pages translated into russian, polish, greek etc will
> be completly useless once man page viewers start to switch to utf-8
> for displaying.

I will use Bruno Haible's libiconv if GNU's libc with iconv() isn't
available.


   Werner
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