Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Groff MingwPORT

[amores p. <lif...@ho...>]

>From: adah
>To: mingw-users
>Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Groff MingwPORT
>Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:40:45 +0800
>
>amores perros wrote:
>
> >>I'd been led to believe, by comments in the `man' sources, that
> >>-Tlatin1 would generally give a better interpretation of manpages
> >>than -Tascii.  Having tried -Tascii, with a selection of groff's
> >
> > Perhaps you're thinking of using -Tlatin1 in a terminal window
> > which is using ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15). But, on Windows,
> > that won't happen, of course.
> >
> > It seems unclear to me, at best, why you could possibly
> > want -Tlatin1 if the console is using CP437 (in a cursory
> > look, I see not one single matchup between ISO-8859-1
> > and CP-437 -- above 0x9f of course), and as for CP936,
> > well, that's a DBCS page, so its even worse?
> >
> > However, what does surprise me, is that CP852 doesn't
> > even seem to match up at all to ISO-8859-1, in my
> > cursory glance. In ISO-8859-1, the capital accented
> > vowels are essentially C0 thru DD, and then of
> > course corresponding lowercase ones at E0 thru FD.
> >
> > But I don't see any of these match against CP852,
> > which seems to have them in 80 thru AF.
> >
> > Of course, there is a LOT of correspondance
> > between ISO-8859-1 and CP1252, but I don't
> > know that it is even possible to have CP1252 in
> > a Windows console?
>
>It is possible.  You need simply `chcp 1252'.
>
>However, I believe most Western people will have default code page 437
>or 852 in the console, and people in other areas will have the local
>code page in the console.  Also, I verified that `groff -Tlatin1 ...
>groff_char.7' does not work well with a code page other than 1252.  So
>`-Tascii' should be preferred by most people.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Yongwei
>

I just verified that "chcp 1252" does work correctly.

Before I'd thought it didn't work, because I had tested with
the default raster fonts, which do not correctly display characters.
I switched to Lucida Console font this time, and then I can see
the results of "chcp 1252".

Thanks.

Cordially,

Perry