troff in 4.1?
Arthur David Olson
olson at ncifcrf.gov
Sun May 6 09:54:42 AEST 1990
> > Can [nt]roff use 8-bit charactercodes now when Sunos is (almost) SYSV?
> No, unfortunately. Nroff and troff are listed as being 8-bit dirty (SunOS
> 4.1 Release Manual, table 7-4). They still strip the top bit on input.
And the nroff manual contains this entertaining passage under the "NOTES" head:
nroff is not 8-bit clean because making nroff 8-bit clean would
require rewriting the nroff internals and filters.
Seeing as nroff would already be 8-bit clean if such rewriting were not
required, the above translates into English thusly:
nroff is not 8-bit clean because nroff is not 8-bit clean.
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