Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix for printing symbols and variable width underlining.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@kosal0.triumf.ca)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 17:06:35 CST
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
>
> The fonts need to be declared Latin 1, or non-ASCII Latin-1 characters will
> be mapped wrong into these fonts. That "symbol" and "dingbat" fonts
> now print (but in character ranges for normal ASCII Latin-1 set glyphs)
> is a bug. They should not print, since their character encodings should
> be different.
>
> To see the difference, insert some accented characters into your
> document (Latin-1 grave, acute, etc.) and print. You'll get the wrong
> characters unless the PostScript assumes a Latin-1 mapping for its fonts.
>
Ahh I see. I can also see the difficulty of printing non-ascii characters.
I will also look into the redbook to find out how print non-ascii fonts in
a more general way. Thanks very much for your help.
Martin Sevior
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