Follow-up Comment #4, bug #58165 (project groff): I configured my system to compile the 8-bit Icelandic locale, and I simply cannot reproduce this with the stock test.
$ locale LANG=C LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_NUMERIC="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_TIME="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_COLLATE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_MONETARY="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_MESSAGES="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_PAPER="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_NAME="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_ADDRESS="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_TELEPHONE="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_MEASUREMENT="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_IDENTIFICATION="is_IS.ISO-8859-1" LC_ALL=is_IS.ISO-8859-1 $ bash src/roff/nroff/tests/verbose_option_works.sh testing 'nroff -V' testing 'nroff -V 1' testing 'nroff -V "1a 1b"' testing 'nroff -V "1a 1b" 2' testing 'nroff -V 1a\"1b 2' $ echo $? 0 I can get 'latin1' in the output of nroff -V if I try to run pieces of the test script in isolation, and forget to set LC_ALL: $ GROFF_RUNTIME="${GROFF_BIN_PATH=.}:" ./nroff -V PATH=/usr/local/bin:/home/branden/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games groff -Tlatin1 -mtty-char $ LC_ALL=C GROFF_RUNTIME="${GROFF_BIN_PATH=.}:" ./nroff -V PATH=/usr/local/bin:/home/branden/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games groff -Tascii -mtty-char In the above, my current working directory is the "build/" subdirectory of a groff git checkout. I suspect your problem is arising from extracting pieces of the test script and failing to prepare the locale in conformance with its expectations. I also strongly encourage you to migrate every Unix system under your control to UTF-8. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58165> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/