8-bit text processing (was: nroff printer driver for LQ2500)
Chip Rosenthal
chip at killer.UUCP
Wed Feb 3 03:44:02 AEST 1988
In article <3176 at killer.UUCP> I wrote:
> The problem is that nroff will only produce 7-bit characters...
In article the referenced article,
carvalho at garnet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Marcio de Carvalho) responded:
> Maybe what follows doesn't apply to your version of nroff. I run DWB 2.0
> on an ATT 3b2... You can enter 8-bit characters in the "charset" table
> by preceding it with a "%".
This doesn't work with SCO's Text Processing System. The nroff tables
are generated by a different method, and '%' is not accepted. The
"trigger character" approach I am using is kind of similar. Instead
of '%', I use '\177'. The kludge is that you need the filter on the
output to translate back to 8-bit characters. But, there is no pain
involved here, because I already need to run that filter to do my
overstriking.
The problem which still remains is that col(CT) munches the non-printing
characters. So I can either get greek characters or I can get tbl tables,
but not both. Hey SCO...with all this internationalization hype, why not
make the text processing system work for 8-bit characters?
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