URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66287>
Summary: help preconv guess the correct encoding of shipped
files
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Thu 03 Oct 2024 04:07:04 PM CDT
Category: General
Severity: 2 - Minor
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Thu 03 Oct 2024 04:07:04 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
The files
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/contrib/mm/groff_mmse.7.man
contrib/mm/groff_mmse.7.man] and
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/meintro_fr.me.in
doc/meintro_fr.me.in] each have an encoding tag near the end of the file in a
Local Variables block. Unfortunately, preconv looks only at the first two
lines of a file for encoding information. So if the user doesn't explicitly
tell preconv what the encoding is for these file, and none of preconv's other
heuristics works, it will guess the wrong encoding.
Give preconv a better chance to succeed by putting the encoding tag where
preconv looks for it.
This does split up file information between the top and bottom of the file.
But plenty of .mom files do this;
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/contrib/mom/examples/sample_docs.mom
contrib/mom/examples/sample_docs.mom] and
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/doc/automake.mom
doc/automake.mom] are two examples.
To see preconv go awry with the current versions of the files, run this
command in a UTF-8 terminal:
groff -k -Tutf8 -man contrib/mm/groff_mmse.7.man | fgrep Hagg
and this command in a latin-1 terminal:
groff -k -Tlatin1 -me -mfr -Ww doc/meintro_fr.me.in | fgrep Babey
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