Despite I adopted etc/man.conf as described in the ebuild, in particular -mg is passed to TROFF/NROFF, umlauts like ä are not displayed with heirloom-doctools. I tried to write the umlauts on the manpage with \(:a and \[:a], and both forms were correctly displayed with groff, but with heirloom-doctools the symbol seems to be ignored in the output (although, as I understand, /usr/share/heirloom/tmac/g should be able to interpret it). I am unsure whether it is a bug in heirloom-doctools or in my configuration or whether my usage on the manpage is wrong. Since nobody could help me in the forums, I report it now as a bug of heirloom-doctools; feel free to close it if it is inappropriate.
Here is the current emerge --info (some personal paths removed). 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This is scheduled for removal.
