At 2024-05-14T17:29:16-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:53 AM G. Branden Robinson > <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I aim to drop EBCDIC a.k.a. > > code page (CCSID) 1047 support from groff 1.24. > > No objection to this. > > > The idea is, for 1.24, to get everybody migrating to pure ASCII > > input documents (as might be generated by preconv(1)) by the time > > GNU troff sees them. > > I don't strongly object, but I wonder about the advisability of > requiring preconv on a wide swath of documents that didn't previously > require it while Savannah #59442 (preconv vs soelim) and #65108 > (handling encoding of filenames) are unresolved.
As far as the wide swath goes, I think that's going to be inescapable for a UTF-8 future. If your character set used the eighth bit of the byte, it's not going to mean the same thing in UTF-8. Regarding #59442, I updated the ticket yesterday to get concrete, having been blocked on mere imaginings of how things worked. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59442 > Are support for EBCDIC and for Latin-1 tightly enough coupled in the > code that it's unnecessarily complex to remove the former while > retaining the latter? Not at all. Regards, Branden
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