> I have observed that groff changes certain characters in manpages.
> [...]
>
> For example, in perlcheat.1, the $| is changed into '$' and a
> vertical bar if the locale is UTF-8.
>
> real: | (U+0x7C)
> output: รข (U+0x2502)
>
> This also to a number of other characters, including the backwa
Hi,
>In
> usr/[local/]share/groff//font/devutf8/R
>you can see which output codes are used for which input characters.
>Looking into perlcheat.1, you can find this (converted on my platform
>with Pod::Man v 1.37):
>
> .tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
>
>The .tr request translates characters. In this partic
