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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:25:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: groff && UTF-8
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Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> The critical part seems to be: the text is UTF-8 and converting this
> to ISO 8859-1 is not an option. It's a Library Management System we
> just ported to Unicode, and we don't want to fall back in printing :-)
> 
> I've checked groff 1.21 from the ports but it seems to understand
> only making UTF-8 output with its driver -Tutf8. Is there a way to make
> it understand UTF-8 as input

Use the preconv(1) command included with groff 1.21, or use the -k
or -K <encoding> options with groff to automatically call preconv.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de