ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Peter Münster]

Hi,

How could I print characters like
€, ’ or œ with ps-spool-buffer please?

When I print a buffer with a line like

   centres d’intérêt, 100€, œuvre

I get this output:

   centres d?intérêt, 100⁄, ‰uvre

TIA for any help,
-- 
           Peter

Re: ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Peter Münster <pm@a16n.net>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:18:54 +0200
> 
> How could I print characters like
> €, ’ or œ with ps-spool-buffer please?
> 
> When I print a buffer with a line like
> 
>    centres d’intérêt, 100€, œuvre
> 
> I get this output:
> 
>    centres d?intérêt, 100⁄, ‰uvre

I suggest to read the commentary at the beginning of ps-mule.el.

Re: ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-06-10 14:56]:
> > From: Peter Münster <pm@a16n.net>
> > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:18:54 +0200
> > 
> > How could I print characters like
> > €, ’ or œ with ps-spool-buffer please?
> > 
> > When I print a buffer with a line like
> > 
> >    centres d’intérêt, 100€, œuvre
> > 
> > I get this output:
> > 
> >    centres d?intérêt, 100⁄, ‰uvre
> 
> I suggest to read the commentary at the beginning of ps-mule.el.

I need that as well.

So far the BDF fonts are somehow weird and ugly. I have got it fresh
from https://www.gnu.org/s/intlfonts and they are really not nice.

Printing is great feature. But we don't have yet good international
solution.


Jean

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Re: ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:40:19 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > I suggest to read the commentary at the beginning of ps-mule.el.
> 
> I need that as well.
> 
> So far the BDF fonts are somehow weird and ugly.

That's not the only alternative described in that commentary.

Re: ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Jean Louis]

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* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-06-10 20:00]:
> > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:40:19 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > I suggest to read the commentary at the beginning of ps-mule.el.
> > 
> > I need that as well.
> > 
> > So far the BDF fonts are somehow weird and ugly.
> 
> That's not the only alternative described in that commentary.

I have tried all alternatives and the BDF combined with latin.

Look at the problem in attachment, it does not look nice.



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Re: ps-spool-buffer and UTF-8

[Peter Münster]

On Thu, Jun 10 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> So far the BDF fonts are somehow weird and ugly.
>
> That's not the only alternative described in that commentary.

The other is ps-multibyte-buffer = nil.
And then adjusting ps-mule-font-info-database-default. But how?

I've tried:
((iso-8859-15
  (normal
   builtin  ; "nil" does not change anything and "vflib" doesn't work
   nil)))   ; "nil" because I don't know which font-name...
But the result is the same...

-- 
           Peter