Note that all `charXXX' entity names have been removed from the font files. They don't make sense for Unicode. The following from the original troff manual (by Ossanna and Kernighan) is unmapped: \(bs shaded solid ball (Bell System logo, AT&T logo) Character 0x002D has not been given a name because its Unicode name "HYPHEN-MINUS" is so ambiguous that it's unusable for serious typographic use. \(wp has been mapped to 0x2118, because according to unicode.org's NamesList-3.0.0.txt, U+2118 "SCRIPT CAPITAL P" is really a Weierstrass p, neither SCRIPT not CAPITAL. The following line could be added; "space" is known to "devps" but are not documented and not known to "devdvi" (actually, there is no space glyph within the TeX system). space 24 0 0x0020 "devps" maps \(a~ and ~ to asciitilde, which is equivalent to 0x02DC, but this glyph is just too small. We map them to 0x007E instead. "devps" maps \(a^ and ^ to circumflex, which is equivalent to 0x02C6, but this glyph is just too small. We map them to 0x005E instead. "devps" maps *U to Upsilon1, which is equivalent to 0x03D2. We map it to 0x03A5 instead. "devps" maps *W to Omega, which is equivalent to either 0x2126 or 0x03A9. We map it to 0x03A9. "devps" maps *D to Delta, which is equivalent to either 0x2206 or 0x0394. We map it to 0x0394. Using unnamed characters ------------------------ Assume you want to use a Unicode character not provided in the list, say U+20AC. You need to do two things: - Add a line --- 24 0 0x20AC (the second column is computed as 24 * wcwidth(0x20AC)) to the file R.proto, or, when groff is already installed, to the four fonts files in $(prefix)/share/groff//font/devutf8/. - In your source file, use the notation \N'8364' where 8364 is the decimal representation of 0x20AC.