URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68102>
Summary: [gropdf] drops some characters in a man page
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: bjarniig
Submitted: Fri 27 Feb 2026 10:24:02 PM UTC
Category: Driver gropdf
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Fri 27 Feb 2026 10:24:02 PM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: [gropdf] drops some characters in a man page
Input line: ... treat 0 and 1 alike,
Output line: ... treat and 1 alik e,
Example:
.TH test-manual 1 2026-02-27
.SH Paragraph
This is a nuisance for the programmer and often still not sufficient
for an adequate translation. Many languages have completely different
ideas on numerals. Some (French, Italian, ...) treat 0 and 1 alike,
others make no distinction at all (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, ...),
others have two or more plural forms (Russian, Latvian, Czech,
Polish, ...). The solution is:
-.-
Example taken from "Locale::Messages.3pm"
test-groff -man -Tpdf -ww <input file>
-.-
With "/usr/bin/groff" (1.23.0) the same bug appears.
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