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
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