Re: [Groff] Why is man better than groff for tty output of groff_char.man?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Bernd,

> The groff man-page groff_char.man has many unusual characters. With
>   $ man -l groff_char.man
> or
>   $ nroff -man -t groff_char.man
> I can read almost all of these characters, while other groff programs
> like -Tlatin1 do not work.

Don't quite understand the problem.  Do you expect a latin1 presentation
to show characters outside the 256-maximum possible?

I'm UTF-8 here;  doing

    diff <(nroff -man -t groff_char.man) \
        <(nroff -man -t -Tlatin1 groff_char.man | iconv -f latin1)

shows differences with the end-of-line hyphens, which is fine, and also
character like

    318,322c318,322
    <        Π      \[OE]  OE           u0152
    <        œ       \[oe]  oe           u0153
    <        IJ       \[IJ]  IJ           u0132            (Dutch)
    <        ij       \[ij]  ij           u0133            (Dutch)
    <        ı       \[.i]  dotlessi     u0131            (Turkish)
    ---
    >        OE      \[OE]  OE           u0152
    >        oe      \[oe]  oe           u0153
    >        IJ      \[IJ]  IJ           u0132            (Dutch)
    >        ij      \[ij]  ij           u0133            (Dutch)
    >        i       \[.i]  dotlessi     u0131            (Turkish)
    328c328
    <        Ć       \['C]  Cacute       u0043_0301
    ---
    >        (N/A)   \['C]  Cacute       u0043_0301

Seems a perfectly reasonable presentation to me?

Cheers, Ralph.