Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

2023-04-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Dave, > whereas < and > are pretty common for this and no one will bat an eye > at those in non-UTF-8 contexts. ‘The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in text documents and protocol fields.

Proposed: stop subjecting right-hand sides of `char` family requests to character translation

2023-04-01 Thread Douglas McIlroy
I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon in groff_char.7. Yes, info groff probably tells me more than I want to know. Still, I expect the man page to be terse, but intelligible. What's an "entity"? Fortunately, Dave Kemper's post shed light on this question. The first

Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

2023-04-01 Thread Mike Fulton
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > [adding Dave to CC; seek your name below for my magical summons] > > At 2023-03-31T13:05:09-0700, Mike Fulton wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 8:57 AM G. Branden Robinson < > > > As a groff developer, I'

Re: Proposed: stop subjecting right-hand sides of `char` family requests to character translation

2023-04-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Doug, At 2023-04-01T19:45:19-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > I went to see what this proposal meant and ran into undefined jargon > in groff_char.7. This, and phrases like "in the actual version", are regrettable defects in the groff 1.22.4 version of this man page. The one in the groff 1.23.0

Re: z/OS porting issues, UTF-8 support, and the groff man(1) page

2023-04-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-01T16:47:25-0700, Mike Fulton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:55 PM G. Branden Robinson < > g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When you're ready to make that shift, be sure to read the > > "INSTALL.REPO" file in the root of the repository or distribution > > archive. > > > > Br