> [...] it turned out that simple requests like
> 
>    .tr aAbBcC or
>    .char aA
> 
> do not work with Russian (non-ACSII) symbols and that I have to do:
> 
>    .char a\[u0431]
> 
> which of course only works with the PostScript de- vice, but fails
> with latin1 which I use for text output.

It is a limitation of groff that a character must be a one-byte entity
or `\[...]'.  Hence no native UTF-8 input support, but you have to use
the preconv preprocessor.

However, I don't understand this line:

  .char a\[u0431]

You want to map `Latin small letter a' to `Cyrillic small letter be'?

Can you prepare a small example which really demonstrates what you
want to do?


    Werner

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