On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 15:32 -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > > On 22/07/17 15:06, John Gardner wrote: > > > ... Can I semi-seriously implore the world to only use UTF-8, and > > > pretend other encodings don't exist? > > > > Not really going to happen, for as long as MS-Windows remains the > > dominant OS for personal computer platforms. > > I have documents, nroff, troff and others (plus sh/ksh/awk/sed/... scripts), > dating back to the mid-1970s. Many of those *roff documents still format > correctly. > > The thing I _like_ about the *nix OSs is they don't demand I upconvert just > because a "better way" comes along. > > Remember when the "modern" way to archive was to put everything onto > microfiche?
I completely agree with Mike! Of course it would be a good thing to *extend* groff's capabilities so that it can cope (optionally) with recent developments, but in my view it *must* keep its original capabilities, and those that have evolved since (say) the 1980s (which is where many of my own troff source files date back to). Best wishes to all, Ted.
