Re: [Groff] can't translate character code 229 to special character `oa' in transparent throughput

[Eli Zaretskii]

> cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:18:17 +0100
> From: Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> > -    system("groff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 -mom -z $cmdstring 2>&1 | grep 
> > '^\.ds' | groff -Tpdf -mom - $preconv $cmdstring");
> > +    system("groff -Tpdf -dPDF.EXPORT=1 -mom -z $cmdstring 2>&1 | grep 
> > \"^\.ds\" | groff -Tpdf -mom - $preconv $cmdstring");
> 
> This looks wrong both times.  :-)  It's a double-quoted string in perl,
> so backslash is interpreted as an escape thus \. needlessly escapes the
> non-special dot giving just a dot and grep sees `^.ds' for the pattern
> AFAICS.

Could very well be.  Perl is largely a read-only language for me.

The point is that '...' quoting cannot be used, unless the shell is a
Posix shell.  I suggest "..." quoting instead.

Thanks.