[groff] UTF8 characters to pdf

[jonathan ahumada]

Hi,

I’m trying to get into groff  with the hopes that I could print my own literary 
drafts. However, I write in spanish and have had problems with accented 
characters such as (á, é, ó , etc). I have been searching and apparently groff 
doesn’t support utf-8, which is the format my files are written in. I have seen 
some people use a `preconv`command or a `-k` flag to convert their files for 
utf-8 into latin1 within the groff command. But the build I have on my Mac 
computer doesn’t seem to have this (version 1.19.2).

I would like to know what course of action should I pursue. I am a beginner 
into programming and the groff system seems fairly intimidating to me.  I know 
you can use escape sequences in order to tell the troff formatter to use 
certain characters, but modifying my files with a sort of tailored script to 
replace all my accents seems burdensome. 


Many thanks,