[bug #60536] separate concepts of device and output encoding

[Dave]

URL:
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                 Summary: separate concepts of device and output encoding
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: barx
            Submitted on: Thu 06 May 2021 01:03:13 AM CDT
                Category: Core
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: New feature
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Werner Lemberg wrote back in 2000
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2000-10/msg00056.html):

"I plan to separate input encodings, output encodings, and character sets from
devices.  Then, we will have real devices like tty, ps, or dvi.  Input
characters will be converted to glyph names by troff, and these glyph names
will be mapped to output encodings (for ttys) resp. fonts (for everything
else) according to the device and font data."

This was clearly never done, but seems like a good design, so I submit it for
some current or future groff developer to consider.




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