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bug #65108: [troff] support construction of general file name request arguments

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Tue 02 Jan 2024 10:59:42 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Feature change Status:  None
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Tue 02 Jan 2024 10:59:42 PM UTC, original submission:  

See the related bug #64071, which aims to do something similar for `sy` and `pso` requests.


Quoting bug #59442, where I got carried away and brainstormed this.

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[Something] I want to do is specialize the formatter's logic when
handling file name arguments given to requests.

Presently, GNU troff calls the same internal function to gather an
argument that is a file name as it does to gather a roff identifier.

Maybe that made sense in 1990, but it doesn't today.  File names can
contain spaces and non-ASCII characters (in whatever encoding the file
system happens to support).

Since these arguments used mainly as-is, handed off to standard C
library functions like `fopen()`, I don't anticipate many problems here
(O Fortuna, seize my hostage).  The only exception to that I can think
of off the top of my head is the value of the `.F` register, which
interpolates a file name.  We will need some way to represent this such
things as output.  At first blush, it seems to me that we can
interpolate spaces as-is (if you want the argument quoted, do that
yourself in context), and any unprintable non-Basic Latin bytes in
groff's \[u00xx] notation.

I say "\[u00xx]" instead of "\[uXXXX]" because we have no way of knowing
what the file system's character encoding is.  Might be ISO 8859-1,
UTF-8, UTF-16BE/LE, or something else entirely.

What would be affected by this:

Requests:

cf
fp (when invoked with a 3rd argument)
hpf
hpfa
lf (when invoked with a 2nd argument)
mso
msoquiet
nx (when invoked with a 2nd argument)
open
opena
psbb
so
soquiet
trf

Escape sequences:

\O5 (but since this is mainly used internally to manage temporary files
    by grohtml, maybe lazily postponing this in hope that my Grand Plan
    to revise grohtml to no longer use a dedicated preprocessor is a
    better idea)


Registers:

.F

[snip]

And probably step 1 would be a simple refactor to introduce file name
argument-gathering and -interpolating functions which initially behave
no differently than the status [quo], but simply wrap existing logic for
identifier gathering and whatever one-off thing the `.F` interpolator
does.

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G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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