Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@pultek.co.jp> writes:
> > There is an internationalized version of troff in Plan-9, as described
> > here (this paper was typeset by that verison of troff too):
> > 
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.ps
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.pdf
> > 	http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/utf.html
> > 
> > Plan-9 source code is supposedly now somewhat freely redistributable.
> 
> Internationalization of typesetting is more than a charset issue.  I
> can't believe Plan-9 troff knows Japanese typesetting rules...

Indeed. Typesetting Japanese is a challenge.

However, is it really true that there has never been a version of
troff that handled Japanese? If so, what were the Japanese language
man pages I used to have on my old Sony NEWS machine written with?

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com