Re: [Groff] man page encoding

[Bruno Haible]

Greg Lehey wrote:
> >   b) Recognize the encoding according to a note in the first line
> >         '\" -*- coding: EUC-JP -*-
> >      groff will then emit errors when it is fed input that is non-ASCII
> > and without coding: marker, so that man page maintainers are notified
> > that they need to add the coding: marker.
>
> 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".

> wouldn't it be more appropriate to make it into a groff request?

Yes, I'm talking about planned changes to groff.

Bruno