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Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode.
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode. |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jul 2001 04:14:21 +0200 (CEST) |
> The Japanese patch seems to assume input text as EUC when devices
> other than -Tascii8 and -Tlatin1 are selected. (I.e., using -Tps
> will enable EUC mode). I am now planning to submit a patch which
> enable EUC mode only under -Tnippon device.
A better temporary solution is probably to add a single flag like -D1
and -D0 to activate interpretation of double-byte characters
independently of the output device. Additionally, an environment
variable like GROFF_DBCS might help to permanently activate it for
Japanese users.
> However, this problem is come from the poor initial design of groff,
> where -T option is used for specifying device _and_ encoding. Thus,
> my patch might annoy Japanese people because Japanese people will be
> located into the situation like you (Cannot use -Tps) with my patch.
This `poor' design is due to the age of troff. BTW, TeX has similar
flaws, and the designer of LaTeX 2e had a lot of work to fix it.
I'm going to fix this for groff 2.0 by implementing Unicode,
separating input and output encoding, but it won't be a quick
development process...
Werner
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Werner LEMBERG, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Radek Hnilica, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Radek Hnilica, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Werner LEMBERG, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Radek Hnilica, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., OKAZAKI Tetsurou, 2001/07/07
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Werner LEMBERG, 2001/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted japanese EUC, Radek Hnilica, 2001/07/08
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/07/09
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted EUC., Radek Hnilica, 2001/07/10
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode.,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/07/12
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Werner LEMBERG, 2001/07/15
- Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/07/17
Re: [Groff] Problems with unwanted unicode., Taketoshi Sano, 2001/07/11