[Groff] Converting very small file into .dvi

Hi groffies, I was trying to convert a very small input file like: into .dvi. I used the command: groff -Tdvi foo > foo.dvi I get an error message saying: "the file you want open contains non-valid characters". The output-file like this: \F7\00\E00\00\00\E1\D8\00\

Re: [Groff] Converting very small file into .dvi

> I get an error message saying: > "the file you want open contains non-valid characters". Hmmm. I can't reproduce this. What locale are you using (LANG, LC_CTYPE)? > I know Latex only a little bit. > But this doesn't like an input-file for Latex. DVI is the *output* format of TeX. It's

Re: [Groff] Converting very small file into .dvi

> I was trying to convert a very small input file like: > > > > > > > into .dvi. > I used the command: groff -Tdvi foo > foo.dvi > > I get an error message saying: > "the file you want open contains non-valid characters". With the above input? This can't happen, except you a

Re: [Groff] Converting very small file into .dvi

Thank you Tadziu, I was using gedit with utf-8. Thank you Werner. Using -k, the error message is still there. It doesn't matter, using dvips, I could turn the dvi-file into .ps. Cheers Gregoire Le mardi 30 décembre 2014 à 19:26 +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann a écrit : > > I get an error message say