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bug#42007: ps-print encodes post-ASCII Unicode incorrectly for common ch


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#42007: ps-print encodes post-ASCII Unicode incorrectly for common characters
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:05:29 +0300

> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:47:52 +0000
> From: "James P. Ascher" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> I'd like to use ps-print to print hard copies of emails from my
> colleagues, but it fails for certain common Unicode characters beyond
> the basic ASCII, rendering them as '?'.
> 
> MINIMAL EXAMPLE:
> 
> 1. New buffer with "What’s up?—Dude."
> 2. Call C-u M-x ps-print-buffer and save as test.ps
> 3. The line in question PostScript code reads:
> 
> (What?s up??Dude.) S
> 
> which renders:
> 
> "What?s up??Dude."
> 
> It should render "What’s up?—Dude."

I don't think ps-print supports non-ASCII characters beyond Latin-1,
definitely not unless you customize ps-mule and ps-bdf with
appropriate font.

Sorry.





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