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authorKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-05-15 15:30:33 +0000
committerKristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>2011-05-15 15:30:33 +0000
commit877bef0b9533150581c911aff80cfbb71c13de8e (patch)
treedd8226017e02a9986ea94aac1ccd95e3035dda59 /mandoc_char.7
parent6ae46f238194f0cb76bd4e0b8dd456d2be0b960d (diff)
downloadmandoc-877bef0b9533150581c911aff80cfbb71c13de8e.tar.gz
Support groff's escape for Unicode input. See
http://mdocml.bsd.lv/archives/tech/0368.html For the time being, we just throw it away.
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.It \e*(Px Ta \*(Px Ta POSIX standard name
.It \e*(Ai Ta \*(Ai Ta ANSI standard name
.El
+.Sh UNICODE CHARACTERS
+The escape sequence
+.Pp
+.Dl \e[uXXXX]
+.Pp
+is interpreted as a Unicode codepoint.
+The codepoint must be in the range above U+0080 and less than U+10FFFF.
+For compatibility, points must be zero-padded to four characters; if
+greater than four characters, no zero padding is allowed.
+Unicode surrogates are not allowed.
+.\" .Pp
+.\" Unicode glyphs attenuate to the
+.\" .Sq \&?
+.\" character if invalid or not rendered by current output media.
.Sh NUMBERED CHARACTERS
For backward compatibility with existing manuals,
.Xr mandoc 1