On Thursday, 19 December 2024 00:34:49 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > For _input_ to GNU troff, maybe, if I can get it done. I'd love that. > > Except for one person (who doesn't contribute and no longer even > participates on the mailing list), I don't know of anyone who's > expressed interest in grout being a UTF-8 file format. > > Is that something you want? What should the consequences of invalid or > incomplete UTF-8 sequences be? > > Regards, > Branden
Hi Branden, I don't mind, I just thought you considered readability of the grout file important [1], currently lots of \[uXXXX] and \(XX are harder to read than UTF-8. It could be a setting in the DESC file so you don't need to change output drivers in one go. I would have hoped that troff would barf at illegal UTF-8 sequences rather than pass them on through grout! Cheers Deri [1] This was your stated reason for not committing "stringhex" from my branch, even though I told you I had a version of pdf.tmac which did not pollute the grout file with hex, instead you decided to introduce a substandard solution during my sabbatical. When I told you that one particular document was now taking over 13 minutes to produce, you did say you would need to do something about it.
