Re: problems printing non-usascii characters

["A. L. Meyers" <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid>]

Thanks, Lawrence.  Here is Eli's answer:

It's a 2-step dance:

1. Frob the list in ps-mule-font-info-database-bdf to include an
   association for Latin-9 (see ps-mule.el).

2. Install a Latin-9 BFD font (if you don't have it already).

(While at that, please submit the changes to ps-mule.el for inclusion in
a future release.)

Alternatively, if your printer can print Latin-9 directly, modify
ps-mule-font-info-database-latin to include an association for Latin-9.


Sounds simple but it puts me out of my depths, which, admittedly, are
very shallow.  Some observations:

1. The problem exists with Gentoo GNU/Linux, not with Debian 3.0.
   (Perhaps blissful Southwestern US Province influence; they would
   anyway have preferred countinuing with 7bit ascii forever. ;-) )

2. Cannot find the verb "to frob" in my English dictionary.

3. Have a Postscript level 3 printer.  How can I know if it "groks"
   (he-he) Latin-9 directly?

So, to paraphrase Goethe's saying, I am as clever as before.

Lucien
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