Re: [Groff] What's missing for Unicode support of groff?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > What else is needed to support Unicode on the input side?
> 
> My suggestion would be to start by picking one of the several UTF-8
> preprocessors that have floated across the list lately, and include
> it in groff.  Perhaps it's a little late to do for 1.19.2, but the
> next update could include it.  That should give manpage writers a
> start and take some of the pressure off Werner, giving him time to
> really do it right.  But Werner is probably going to end up doing
> most of the work, so it's his call in the end.

groff can handle only 203 input characters currently.  The *top
priority* for me in converting groff to handle Unicode is to widen the
8bit input character slot to have a width of 32bit.  Everything else
is much less important IMHO.


    Werner