V Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 12:11:55PM +0100, Lukas Javorsky napsal(a):
Did we try to persuade upstream to revert the problem? But if they're not receptive then a downstream fix aligned with Debian looks right.
I didn't yet. However, if they decided to stop mapping these characters, I don't think they would be willing to revert it back. They mentioned the option to map it locally as I did in the PR. I assume they want to stop mapping it on their end and let distros decide if they want to do it themselves.
I think an upstream only wants to adhere to the language specification (groff_char(7)). These small differences became prominent with the advent of UTF-8 capable terminals. They have always been visible in a PostScript output.
Imagine you are the upstream and a user sends you a bug report that groff does not behave according to the specification. While another user complains that his nonconforming input behaves weirdly. There is no solution which would satisfy both.
-- Petr