Re: Man and UTF-8.
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>> You would have needed to take it up with Joseph Ossanna and Brian
>> Kernighan, since *roff has worked this way since the beginning of the
>> formatting language.
> Note that “blame the makers of groff” is *not* what I'm saying; they
> make their decisions in the context of their times, and I'm fine with
> that.
Sure, I understand. I just wanted to mention.
(Also, it's not groff -- groff is a specific implementation of the
language which is much newer than the underlying language. Just to be
pedantic.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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