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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Considering UTF and Unicode in general,
> there is a problem of Normalization.
> I.e. it would be nice to have UTF transformed to composed form
> before feeding to groff, since the likelihood of a precomposed
> glyph being in the font is higher then the chance of groff
> typesetting base glyph + combining glyph properly.

You are completely right.  I'll archive your comment :-)

For the moment, I'll ignore it.  It's a step too early -- it should be
rather straightforward to generate this from the Unicode tables
(simimilar to the opposite).


  Werner