Re: [Groff] man.conf

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Werner,

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > man.conf from man-1.5p has the following lines:
> >
> > # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T
> > # option.  (Maybe - but today I need -Tlatin1 to prevent double
> > # conversion to utf8.)
>
> No idea why they don't use -Tutf8, especially on a TTY.

what was the first groff version with working utf8 device
(since which version can we recommend using -Tutf8)?

         Sincerely, Michail