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Re: nroff does not honor TYPESETTER


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: nroff does not honor TYPESETTER
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:40:13 +0100 (CET)

> nroff does not honor the TYPESETTER environment variable documented
> in the "Troff User's Manual" page 31.

`TYPESETTER' is implementation specific.  The corresponding
environment variable for groff is `GROFF_TYPESETTER'.

> SUGGESTED FIX [optional]:
> If the TYPESETTER environment variable is set, use it rather than
> guess based on the locale.

I implemented that for GROFF_TYPESETTER.  Please test the CVS.

> Additionally, I wouldn't be upset if groff stopped mapping ASCII
> input characters into Unicode.

This has been already discussed, and I'll fix that somehow for man
pages (but not in general).


   Thanks

      Werner




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