Re: [Groff] man page encoding

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >>> This looks like it would conflict with Emacs usage.
> >>
> >> Where is the conflict? This is precisely the syntax for declaring
> >> an encoding to Emacs, and by now Emacs also recognizes standard
> >> encoding names like "GB2312" and "UTF-8".
> >
> > It's also the method to describe a minor mode to Emacs.  For
> > example, all my documents start with:
> >
> >   .\" This file is in -*- nroff-fill -*- mode
> >
> > More importantly though, you intend this to talk to groff, not to
> > Emacs.

The syntax needs the `coding:' tag; everything else is ignored.  I
don't see a problem here.

> > groff defines the term 'request' specially: it refers to the
> > commands that start at the beginning of the line with . or '.  I
> > was thinking more like:
> >
> >   .Character-Encoding EUC-JP
> >
> > This would incidentally also allow changing the character set in
> > mid-stream, at least syntactically.  I suspect there may be
> > reasons that make it impractical.

Exactly.  Basically, the encoding of a file is a meta information and
should stayed fixed for the whole document.


    Werner