Re: Latin-1 files in groff

On Sun, 12 Apr 2026, Keith Thompson wrote:

> When I view it with less, it doesn't, and I see:
>
>   for the man, ms, me, mm, and mom packages.  Thanks to Eloi Monta<F1><E9>s.
>
> Setting LESSCHARSET=latin1 doesn't fix this, perhaps because other
> tools I'm using (xterm, tmux, etc.) still assume UTF-8.

That's a problem iwith less.

> If there's a consensus that the human-readable plain-text files
> should be converted to UTF-8, I volunteer to submit a patch.

Scary.

Thanks - Damian