Nroff is now fixed for working with or without -T option.

nroff

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 prog="$0"
 charset_in=iso-8859-1
 charset_out=`locale charmap 2>/dev/null`
+# we prefer utf8
 opts="-mtty-char -Tutf8"
 
 for i
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ do
       exit 1 ;;
     -[iptSUC] | -[mrno]*)
       opts="$opts $1" ;;
+	# someone wants specified -T, let's change opts from utf8
     -Tascii | -Tlatin1 | -Tutf8 | -Tcp1047 | -Tascii8 | -Tnippon | -Tkorean)
       T=$1 ;
       opts="-mtty-char $T";;
@@ -55,6 +57,10 @@ else
   TMPFILE=buf
 fi
 
+# if -T was set -> just run groff and quit nroff
+if [ -n "$T" ]; then
+  /usr/bin/groff -mtty-char $opts ${TMPFILE} 2>/dev/null 
+else
   if [ $TMPFILE = buf ]; then
     echo -n "$buf" | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 &>/dev/null && charset_in=utf-8
   else
@@ -94,5 +100,5 @@ else
 	rm -f $TMPFILE
     fi
   fi
- 
+fi
 # eof

nroff.patch

@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-diff -up ./nroff.old ./nroff
---- ./nroff.old	2007-08-16 16:11:35.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./nroff	2008-01-23 14:22:19.000000000 +0100
-@@ -6,51 +6,6 @@ charset_in=iso-8859-1
- charset_out=`locale charmap 2>/dev/null`
- opts="-mtty-char -Tutf8"
- 
--# Default device.
--# First try the "locale charmap" command, because it's most reliable.
--# On systems where it doesn't exist, look at the environment variables.
--case "`locale charmap 2>/dev/null`" in
--  UTF-8)
--    T=-Tutf8 ;;
--  ISO-8859-1)
--    T=-Tlatin1 ;;
--  IBM-1047)
--    T=-Tcp1047 ;;
--  EUC-JP)
--    T=-Tnippon ;;
--  EUC-KR)
--    T=-Tkorean ;;
--  *)
--	case "${LC_ALL-${LC_CTYPE-${LANG}}}" in
--      *.UTF-8)
--        T=-Tutf8 ;;
--      iso_8859_1 | *.ISO-8859-1)
--        T=-Tlatin1 ;;
--      *.IBM-1047)
--        T=-Tcp1047 ;;
--      ja_JP.ujis | ja_JP.eucJP)
--    T=-Tnippon ;;
--      ko_KR.eucKR)
--        T=-Tkorean ;;
--      *)
--        case "$LESSCHARSET" in
--          utf-8)
--            T=-Tutf8 ;;
--          latin1)
--            T=-Tlatin1 ;;
--          cp1047)
--            T=-Tcp1047 ;;
--          japanese)
--        T=-Tnippon ;;
--          ko)
--            T=-Tkorean ;;
--          *)
--            T=-Tascii8 ;;
--		esac ;;
--    esac ;;
--esac
--
--
- for i
- do
-   case $1 in
-@@ -58,19 +13,16 @@ do
-       opts="$opts -P-c" ;;
-     -h)
-       opts="$opts -P-h" ;;
--    -[eq] | -s*)
--      # ignore these options
--      ;;
-     -[mrnoT])
-       echo $"option $1 requires an argument" >&2
-       exit 1 ;;
-     -[iptSUC] | -[mrno]*)
-       opts="$opts $1" ;;
--    -Tascii | -Tlatin1 | -Tutf8 | -Tcp1047 | -Tascii8 | -Tnippon | -Tkorean)
--      opts=
--      T=$1 ;;
--    -T*)
--      # ignore other devices
-+	-Tascii | -Tlatin1 | -Tutf8 | -Tcp1047 | -Tascii8 | -Tnippon | -Tkorean)
-+	  T=$1 ;
-+	  opts="-mtty-char $T";;
-+    -[eq] | -s* | -u* | -T*)
-+	  # ignore other devices
-       ;;
-     -v | --version)
-       echo $"GNU nroff (groff) with Red Hat i18n/l10n support"
-@@ -120,7 +72,6 @@ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
- 
- # This shell script is intended for use with man, so warnings are
- # probably not wanted.  Also load nroff-style character definitions.
--
- if [ $charset_in = utf-8 -a $charset_out = UTF-8 ]; then
-   if [ $TMPFILE = buf ]; then
-     echo -n "$buf" | /usr/bin/groff $opts 2>/dev/null
-@@ -140,7 +91,7 @@ else
-     /usr/bin/groff $opts 2>/dev/null | \
-     /usr/bin/iconv -f utf-8 -t ${charset_out}//translit
- 
--    rm -f $TMPFILE
-+	rm -f $TMPFILE
-   fi
- fi
-