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

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Werner,
you wrote:

> > > 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.

> 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.

Doues it mean that there will be no quick-and-dirty prepocessor-based 
solution
in the short term (before you do it properly)?

                                                 Sincerely, Michail