Re: Unable to get GROFF_ENCODING to seep through to sourced subfiles

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Dorai Sitaram wrote in
 <1129728531.3387046.1604937518647@mail.yahoo.com>:
 |I have GROFF_ENCODING set to utf8, but this only works for the main \
 |file processed by groff, not to any subfiles that are sourced via .so .
 |Giving the -s option to groff to force a soelim doesn't work either.  
 |Adding the -k option to force a preconv, whether before or after the \
 |-s option, doesn't work either. (I think regardless of the placement \
 |of -k and -s, -k happens before -s, hence the problem? Perhaps -k should \
 |be forced to happen last?)
 |What does work is
 |soelim mainDoc.ms | preconv | groff ...
 |but it would be nice to avoid the pipelines with either options and/or \
 |environment variable.

This is a groff pipeline fault (or preconv should vanish and any
file opened should internally be handled by the right encoding,
which i think would be even better), also see

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-07/msg00027.html

--steffen
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