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Date:      Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:23:21 -0600
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org>
To:        Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Improved manual page for ul(1)
Message-ID:  <20161109052321.GA91607@kduck.kaduk.org>
In-Reply-To: <ef226887-41c6-f803-e2c1-ee7f7c274c1f@NTLWorld.com>
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:17:53AM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:
> 
> > And more interesting is whether less could be fixed to make groff's 
> > overstrikes work.  Or groff fixed to not need overstrikes for things 
> > that can be done in Unicode ...
> >
> It turns out that this is the man command limiting things. Again.  It's 
> hardwiring -Tascii even if it detects a UTF-8 character locale.

Note that the affected codepath is only for the legacy groff fallback;
the common case should be using mandoc(1) directly (though I would not
be surprised if it still needs patching to pass -Tmumble).

-Ben



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