Larry Kollar wrote on 08.04.09: > > Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > >> 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: > > Try adding the -k option to groff. This calls the preconv preprocessor, > which escapes all utf8 characters.
Wow! Thank you Larry. That's what i call an efficient answer! It would have taken me another month to come up with that. THANKS! Jan
