Dear List, if somebody can tell me where to start digging into the following problem i am grateful:
I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new system changing the locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write texts. German umlauts now produce the following errormessages: test.mom:136: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in transparent throughput test.mom:139: can't translate character code 194 to special character `^A' in transparent throughput test.mom:139: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in transparent throughput test.mom:139: can't translate character code 195 to special character `~A' in transparent throughput test.mom:139: can't translate character code 188 to special character `14' in transparent throughput The resulting ps-file contains unwanted combinations of characters mostly containing an 'A' with '~' on top. Processing a file backupped from the old system does not produce these problems (vim's ":set all" output shows "encoding=utf8" there as it does in test.mom here) My groff ist version 1.20.1 which i compiled after the generic groff 1.18.1 from my ubuntu 8.10 produced this encoding problem to begin with. "$locale" outputs to: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= I should add that i am haunted by encoding problems. I have incomprehensible errors such as that if i put umlauts in my ".muttrc" the reply-mails in vim have wrong umlauts but if the ".muttrc" is clear of umlauts everything is fine. Or that a non gui-terminal (via strg-alt-f1) prints all umlauts exept small 'ö' (oe) and small 'ä' (ae). I am aware that this is a problem that might have been reported before but i am unable to find answers since i can't pin down the problem in a sensible way. And i am very frustrated. Any hints welcome. Jan -- Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas. (Dank an JP, ML mutt-users)
