[bug #56015] tty device should handle bullet character more intelligently

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #56015 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Oh.  I need to (temporarily?) retract my +1.

We already have the concept of a fallback character; it's what the .fchar
request is for.  And an overstriking fallback is the very next thing in
tty.tmac anyway.

Werner is the person who added this special casing for \[bu] back in 2015.


commit e7ea3e1106e0745ff252808e30d13a81478402eb
Author: Werner Lemberg <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jun 17 19:47:20 2015 +0200

    * tmac/tty.tmac: Fix mapping of \[bu] character for -Tutf8.
    
    Problem reported by address@hidden


I'll have to go to the mailing list to see if I can track this down.  The
motivation is not spelled out here.

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