* mandoc: John Gardner: handling of ASCII control characters during input
@ 2020-06-22 18:01 schwarze
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John Gardner: handling of ASCII control characters during input
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@@ -83,6 +83,20 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200
loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp *
+- mandoc replaces all ASCII control characters except tab and line feed
+ with '?' during input. It would be better to replace them with
+ Unicode escapes in preconv_encode() or somewhere in the vicinity,
+ such that the already existing better replacement strings show
+ up in the output. Emulating groff is not desirable: groff replaces
+ 0x00, 0x0b, and 0x0d to 0x1f with the empty string (bad because
+ that's easy to overlook for the document author), 0x01 with '.'
+ (very confusing), and passes through 0x02 to 0x08, 0x0c, and 0x7f
+ raw (bad because that is insecure output). Remember that 0x07 may
+ need special handling because it is sometimes used for certain
+ delimiters, so it may need handling *after* roff.c rather than before.
+ reminded by John Gardner 16 Jun 2020 14:26:28 +1000
+ loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *
+
--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7)
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