[MPlayer-cvslog] r20583 - trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:01:01PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:31:11PM +0100, diego wrote:
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt
> > 
> > Log:
> > paragraph about groff and UTF-8
> > 
> > --- trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	(original)
> > +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt	Wed Nov  1 18:31:11 2006
> > @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
> >                groff -mman -Tlatin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt
> >                The groff man page lists other output formats to use with -T.
> >  
> > +              Unfortunately groff is not able to handle UTF-8 input as of
> > +              version 1.19.2. groff-utf8 is a wrapper that works around these
> > +              deficiencies:
> > +                http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html
> 
> Using the free Plan9 troff instead of groff is also a solution, since
> Plan9 has been UTF-8-only all along.

Do you have the source and/or a link?  I cannot find it and the
following page comes up empty:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/troff/

Diego