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Re: Print eight-bit-* characters with ps-print
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Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: Print eight-bit-* characters with ps-print |
Date: |
Mon, 20 May 2002 09:32:50 +0900 (JST) |
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"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Please try to add more delq for eight-bit-* here, and set
>> ps-print-control-characters to `8-bit' (the default is
>> `8-bit-control'). Then all eight-bit-* should be printed in
>> octal form. Isn't it what you want?
> Well, having eight-bit-* characters printed as octal escapes is less
> than optimal. The code I posted does slightly better: it prints them
> in the default font built into the PostScript printer (usually
> Latin-1).
> As I said, this is not 100% correct, but in many cases it matches what
> you see on the screen. And it certainly is nicer than the octal
> escapes.
Ah, I think I see your point. Printing such a character by
octal or a glyph of the same code of ASCII font should be
controlled by ps-print-control-characters. But, in the
latter case, the ASCII font should by the builtin font found
in ps-font-info-database, not what specified in
ps-mule-font-info-database (e.g. "lt1-24-etl.bdf" if
ps-multibyte-buffer is bdf-font). Is that what you mean?
Then, I agree with your change. But, anyway, we must delete
eight-bit-* from `charset' variable because we should avoid
that unnecessary warning "Font for some characters not
found, ..." even if ps-multibyte-buffer is nil.
>> > (Btw, it looks like iso-safe can safely encode eight-bit-* characters.
>> > If that's true, I think we should update its doc string. Handa-san,
>> > can you please comment on this?)
>>
>> This is a difficult part. Currently, as far as I remember
>> all coding-systems encode them as is. They are treated as
>> special bytes that should be written out as is. I'm not
>> sure whether or not we should make iso-safe as an exception.
>> Instead, how about documenting clearly that there's a super
>> rule that any coding system encodes eight-bit-* as is?
> I will look for a proper place, thanks.
Thank you.
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Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden