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bug #42870: `.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit characters but should accept any characters entities.

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Submitted on:  Tue 29 Jul 2014 09:28:30 AM UTC  
 
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Sun 13 Dec 2015 09:47:28 PM UTC, comment #2:

Having groff's defaults in alignment would ameliorate this bug. That is, because latin-1 is the default input encoding, by default groff should assign hyphenation codes to all alphabetic characters in the latin-1 character set, rather than to only ASCII alphabetic characters.

Anonymous
Tue 29 Jul 2014 11:11:18 AM UTC, comment #1:

Mailing list thread starts at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-07/msg00116.html

Ralph Corderoy <ralph>
Tue 29 Jul 2014 09:28:30 AM UTC, original submission:

`.hcode' and `.hw' are limited to raw 8bit characters. Instead, they should accept any characters entities like `\[u00AD]'. Similarly, `.hpfcode' should be modified to allow entities, too. [1]

With the current implementation it may be required to use latin1 or other non-7-bit coded input files. utf-8 does not work directly for these requests. This may limit the portabilty. Extending these requests to accept codings like \[u00AD] would allow to use standard ASCII input files for all purposes.

[1] See email from Werner LEMBERG to -unavailable- on 2014-07-29

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