Hi,
> The commands you send to me works fine for me too. My point is: in
> place of:
> $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> it would be much faster and easier to write
> $ printf 'testé' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> but this command doesn't work
troff takes ISO-8859-1 as its default input. If you want to feed it
UTF-8 then look at groff's -k option. Try
printf 'testé\n' | groff -k -me -X
> I don't understand what is the use of -mlatin9 because
> $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -mlatin9 -X
> ...give the same result as
> $ printf 'test\xe9\n' | groff -me -X
troff's default for input is ISO-8859-1. 9 is very similar to 1 so you
aren't seeing any differences in your test. Using a Euro symbol may
help.
Cheers, Ralph.
