meta2fun(1M)                                                   meta2fun(1M)

NAME
     meta2fun - 8-bit character converter

SYNOPSIS
     meta2fun < file

DESCRIPTION
     The meta2fun filter replaces (almost) all characters in the 8-bit ISO
     8859-1 character set [cf. meta-ascii(5)] in the specified file with
     troff special characters ("funny characters") [cf. roff-charset(5)].
     This means that these 8-bit characters can be printed in PostScript
     format.

EXAMPLES
     A typical command looks as follows:

          pic file | tbl | eqn | meta2fun | troff -Tpost ...

NOTES
     The following 8-bit ISO 8859-1 characters are not defined in
     PostScript and therefore are also not replaced by meta2fun:
          ____________________________________________________________
         | Hex.|  Oct.|  Dec.|  Graphic|            Meaning          |
         |_____|______|______|_________|_____________________________|
         |  A0 |  240 |  160 |         |  NBSP, Non Breaking Space   |
         |  A6 |  246 |  166 |     ¦   |  Broken vertical line       |
         |  B2 |  262 |  178 |     ²   |  Superscript 2              |
         |  B3 |  263 |  179 |     ³   |  Superscript 3              |
         |  B9 |  271 |  185 |     ¹   |  Superscript 1              |
         |  D0 |  320 |  208 |     Ð   |  Uppercase Icelandic ETH    |
         |  DD |  335 |  221 |     Ý   |  Uppercase Y acute accent   |
         |  DE |  336 |  222 |     Þ   |  Uppercase Icelandic Thorn  |
         |  F0 |  360 |  240 |     ð   |  Lowercase Icelandic ETH    |
         |  FD |  375 |  253 |     ý   |  Lowercase y acute accent   |
         |  FE |  376 |  254 |     þ   |  Lowercase Icelandic Thorn  |
         |_____|______|______|_________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO
     meta-ascii(5), roff-charset(5).
















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