[bug #49887] nroff -D option (in particular, -Dutf8)

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: nroff -D option (in particular, -Dutf8)
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 19 Dec 2016 01:46:20 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wishlist
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Troff supports -D and -T options to indicate character encodings, whereas
Nroff doesn't.

At the same time, nroff is used by man to format man pages (and nroff -mandoc)
is default in /etc/man.conf.

Could the -D option be added to nroff, or, maybe, just proxied to troff
(since, afaiu, nroff calls troff inside).

This would greatly enhance the user-friendliness of an average Linux distro,
since many internationalised man pages are supplied in utf8.

It shouldn't be too hard to implement, since troff already supports this
option.





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