[bug #42870] `.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit characters but should accept any characters entities.

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                 Summary: `.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit
characters but should accept any characters entities.
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 29 Jul 2014 09:28:30 AM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

`.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit characters.  Instead, they should
accept any characters entities like `\[u00AD]'.  Similarly, `.hpfcode' should
be modified to allow entities, too. [1]

With the current implementation it may be required to use latin1 or other
non-7-bit coded input files.  utf-8 does not work directly for these requests.
 This may limit the portabilty.  Extending these requests to accept codings
like \[u00AD] would allow to use standard ASCII input files for all purposes.

[1] See email from Werner LEMBERG to address@hidden on 2014-07-29




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