--- groff-1.19.1/src/roff/nroff/nroff.sh.nroff	2006-09-15 10:20:19.000000000 +0200
+++ groff-1.19.1/src/roff/nroff/nroff.sh	2006-09-15 10:23:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,43 +2,6 @@
 # Emulate nroff with groff.
 
 prog="$0"
-# Default device.
-# First try the "locale charmap" command, because it's most reliable.
-# On systems where it doesn't exist, look at the environment variables.
-case "`exec 2>/dev/null ; locale charmap`" in
-  UTF-8)
-    T=-Tutf8 ;;
-  ISO-8859-1)
-    T=-Tlatin1 ;;
-  IBM-1047)
-    T=-Tcp1047 ;;
-  EUC-JP)
-    T=-Tnippon ;;
-  *)
-    case "${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 ;;
-      *)
-        case "$LESSCHARSET" in
-          utf-8)
-            T=-Tutf8 ;;
-          latin1)
-            T=-Tlatin1 ;;
-          cp1047)
-            T=-Tcp1047 ;;
-          japanese)
-	    T=-Tnippon ;;
-          *)
-            T=-Tascii8 ;;
-          esac ;;
-     esac ;;
-esac
 opts=
 
 # `for i; do' doesn't work with some versions of sh
@@ -58,8 +21,8 @@
       exit 1 ;;
     -[iptSUC] | -[dmrno]*)
       opts="$opts $1" ;;
-    -Tascii | -Tlatin1 | -Tutf8 | -Tcp1047 | -Tascii8 | -Tnippon)
-      T=$1 ;;
+#    -Tascii | -Tlatin1 | -Tutf8 | -Tcp1047)
+#      T=$1 ;;
     -T*)
       # ignore other devices
       ;;
@@ -90,6 +53,33 @@
   shift
 done
 
+# copy the man page to a temp file
+TMPFILE=$(mktemp /tmp/man.XXXXXX)
+trap "rm -f $TMPFILE" 0 1 2 3 15
+cat ${1+"$@"} >| ${TMPFILE}
+
+# test the charset encoding of the man page
+if iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -o /dev/null ${TMPFILE} 2>/dev/null
+then
+  charset_in=utf-8
+else
+  # non utf-8 encoding
+  case "${LANGUAGE-${LC_CTYPE-${LANG}}}" in
+    cs*|hr*|hu*|pl*|ro*|sk*|sl*) charset_in=iso-8859-2 ;;
+    el*) charset_in=iso-8859-7 ;;
+    tr*) charset_in=iso-8859-9 ;;
+    bg*) charset_in=cp1251 ;;
+    ja*) charset_in=euc-jp ;;
+    ko*) charset_in=euc-kr ;;
+    ru*) charset_in=koi8-r ;;
+    uk*) charset_in=koi8-u ;;
+    zh_TW*|zh_HK*) charset_in=big5 ;;
+    zh_CN*|zh*) charset_in=gb2312 ;;
+    *) charset_in=iso-8859-1 ;;
+  esac
+fi
+charset_out=`locale charmap 2>/dev/null`
+
 # Set up the `GROFF_BIN_PATH' variable
 # to be exported in the current `GROFF_RUNTIME' environment.
 
@@ -99,6 +89,10 @@
 # This shell script is intended for use with man, so warnings are
 # probably not wanted.  Also load nroff-style character definitions.
 
-PATH="$GROFF_RUNTIME$PATH" groff -mtty-char $T $opts ${1+"$@"}
+/usr/bin/iconv -f ${charset_in} -t ${charset_out}//translit ${TMPFILE} | \
+    PATH="$GROFF_RUNTIME$PATH" groff -mtty-char -Tutf8 $opts 2>/dev/null | \
+    /usr/bin/iconv -f utf-8 -t ${charset_out}//translit
+
+rm -f ${TMPFILE}
 
 # eof