Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Bruno,

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Bruno Haible wrote:

> When an input file contains the character <U+1EBF>, preconv transforms it
> to \[u1EBF], and troff transforms it to a single glyph u0065_0302_0301. Fine.
>
> But when an input file contains the characters <U+0078><U+0302><U+0301>,
> preconv transforms it to x\[u0302]\[u0301], and troff produces three distinct
> glyphs x, u0302, u0301. This is wrong.

"Fine", "wrong" - may be the answer is "it depends"
(on the availability of the precomposed glyph in the font)?

                 Sincerely, Michail