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[bug #58796] preconv: want option to write traditional [g|t]roff special characters where possible

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Follow-up Comment #5, bug #58796 (project groff):

Just a couple of miscellaneous data points here.

1. "I neither think that groff is really C++, it is more like C with some
aspects of classes"

My understanding from perusal of the sources over the past few years and a
hazy recollection of Stroustrup 2nd edition is that groff is written in a
limited subset of C++ as it existed in 1990 or so.  Maybe a little past the
1st edition of the C++ book, but not a lot.  Templates are not used anywhere
I've seen.  None of the funny cast operators <static_cast>, <const_cast>,
<reinterpret_cast>, <dynamic_cast> appear to be present.

There are still comments in the source code that refer to workarounds for
CFRONT.

2. Something no one ever seems to mention when talking about supporting
Unicode natively is which Normalization Form(s) we should support.

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[bug #58796] preconv: want option to write traditional [g|t]roff special characters where possible "G. Branden Robinson" <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> - 2020-08-06 10:35 -0400

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