[bug #68511] [troff] `hcode` doesn't work on ordinary characters since commit 994fcce775, 2026-05-24

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:55:59 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.bugs
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Follow-up Comment #10, bug #68511 (group groff):

Instrumenting the function revealed stinky fish.


character 'a'
  is not translated
  does not have a macro
  special translation: 0
  hyphenation code: 97
  inherent flags: 0 (none)
  asciify code: 0
  ASCII code: 97
  Unicode mapping: U+0061
  is found
  is transparently translatable
  is not translatable as input
  mode: normal
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: applying hyphenation to character
'a'
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: applying hyphenation from
character 'a'
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: bottom of loop, new token is a
space
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: applying hyphenation to character
'b'
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: applying hyphenation from
character 'b'
troff:ATTIC/hcode-68511.groff:2: debug: GBR: bottom of loop, new token is a
newline
character 'a'
  is not translated
  does not have a macro
  special translation: 0
  hyphenation code: 97
  inherent flags: 0 (none)
  asciify code: 0
  ASCII code: 97
  Unicode mapping: U+0061
  is found
  is transparently translatable
  is not translatable as input
  mode: normal


The loop isn't doing **nothing**.

It's doing a whole lot of idempotent stuff!

Watch the busy beaver work!

(This method employed is not good candidate for a busy beaver contest.)


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