Re: groff, man and Unicode

[Innocenti Maresin <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Werner LEMBERG wrote in news://news.nl.linux.org/20021210.215656.118976633.wl@xxxxxxx

> groff will use iconv as a simple preprocessor.  I plan that in future 
> groff will understand only two input encodings: latin1 (for backwards 
> compatibility) and utf8.

Sounds reasonable, but why groff is not in future yet, after more than 1 year? 
Why UTF-8 input was not provided in groff-1.19 ?
<rant>Will damn groff someday accept non-latin texts 
or each user have to make its own patch for it? 
In 1.19 a hell of various tmac's is provided 
except some few which are needed for people who are so unhappy 
that use UTF-8 for non-latin scripts! 
</rant>
Of course, I can filter KOI8-R cyrillic via groff in 8bit mode, 
but such kind of solution is not acceptable for East Asian scripts and, 
in general, is not a right thing for i18n. 



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