[bug #42870] `.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit characters but should accept any characters entities.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #42870 (group groff):

                  Status:               Need Info => Unreproducible         
             Assigned to:                    None => carstenkunze           

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Follow-up Comment #8:

I cannot reproduce the complaint about `hw` not working with 8-bit
characters.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/escape-kindergarten.groff
.if r HW .hw kin-der-g\[a ad]r-ten
.ll 62n
\c
.nr oldline \n[nl]
.while (\n[oldline] = \n[nl]) kinderg\[a ad]rten
.pl \n[nl]u
$ ./build/test-groff -T utf8 EXPERIMENTS/escape-kindergarten.groff 
kindergärten     kindergärten     kindergärten    kindergärten
kindergärten
$ ./build/test-groff -r HW=1 -T utf8 EXPERIMENTS/escape-kindergarten.groff 
kindergärten kindergärten kindergärten kindergärten kindergär‐
ten


Looping in original reporter.




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