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Re: [Groff] man page encoding

> > The tag in the header makes groff call a
> > preprocessor which inserts a proper encoding filter.
> 
> Which means that man should not call iconv when output is to groff,
> while it should call iconv when output goes elsewhere.

???  Nothing prevents man of calling iconv by itself to produce UTF-8,
then passing the converted data to groff without activating the
preprocessor.


    Werner

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