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paragraph about groff and UTF-8
author diego
date Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:31:11 +0000
parents 595b7c1794fa
children 2b0bf3891361
files DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Wed Nov 01 17:05:17 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Wed Nov 01 17:31:11 2006 +0000
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
               groff -mman -Tlatin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt
               The groff man page lists other output formats to use with -T.
 
+              Unfortunately groff is not able to handle UTF-8 input as of
+              version 1.19.2. groff-utf8 is a wrapper that works around these
+              deficiencies:
+                http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html
+
   - man2html: You can view it through a CGI script:
               http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html?mplayer
               The output is unusable as the script doesn't seem to support