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I've got myself into experimenting with groff and from the start I found out the romanian special characters I type in vim are all fine (I ran setxkbmap ro), but get messed up in the pdf export.

Running

groff -Tpdf -ms letext.ms > letext.pdf

instead of ășâțî ĂȘÂȚÎ I get all kinds of other special characters.

Running

groff -Kutf8 -Tpdf -ms letext.ms > letext.pdf

some of the characters I want remain, but the others disppear and I get this message in the terminal

warning: can't find special character `u0074_0326'
warning: can't find special character `u0061_0306'
warning: can't find special character `u0073_0326'
warning: can't find special character `u0041_0306'
warning: can't find special character `u0053_0326'
warning: can't find special character `u0054_0326'

Should I edit the tmacs to get the characters I want? Should I write another tmac with the characters I want and load that instead?

EDIT#1

As Philip Couling suggested, I wrote ășâțî ĂȘÂȚÎ in a file letest.txt and ran hexdump -C letest.txt on it. Here are the results.

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  • Can you confirm what character set letext.ms is written in. Preferably write ășâțî ĂȘÂȚÎ into a text file with vi and then hexdump -C testfile.txt and edit the result into your question. Character sets are tricky, you always need to know what you are converting from.
    – Philip Couling
    Apr 11, 2019 at 11:16
  • Here it is. Seems nothing comes out of it on the right side.
    – Silviu Barba Rosie
    Apr 11, 2019 at 12:48
  • This shows the file is indeed in UTF-8. This doesn't look like the problem I thought it might be. In searching I did stumble on this which might give something helpful: lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2016-02/msg00007.html
    – Philip Couling
    Apr 11, 2019 at 13:26

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See Peter Schaffter's page and automated script for installing new fonts to Groff:

https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/appendices.html

You will need to add a font with the Romanian characters.

E.g. I use DejaVu for the real number symbol ℝ in my Groff documents.

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