eggert@uunet.uu.net (Paul Eggert) (05/02/90)
|Can [nt]roff use 8-bit charactercodes now when Sunos is (almost) SYSV? | -- jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) 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. SunOS 4.1 still uses the old troff, not ditroff.
olson@ncifcrf.gov (Arthur David Olson) (05/06/90)
> > 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.