From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: A. L. Meyers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems printing non-usascii characters Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:42:08 +0200 Organization: Meyers Consulting http://www.consult-meyers.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87heh6qmrj.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> References: <87y9aj2p1j.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> <877ki33ww9.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> <87elcaop0n.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> Reply-To: A. Lucien Meyers NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031122472 14759 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 06:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mU3a-0003pu-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:54:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mU58-0003im-00; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 02:56:06 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!landhaus.consult-meyers.com!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: megazh-d-59.agrinet.ch Original-X-Trace: rex.ip-plus.net 1031122001 6858 212.28.158.59 (4 Sep 2002 06:46:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ip-plus.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 06:46:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9UQjA9EdFjfIvOHMHk9la1cuA4c= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104467 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1029 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > "A. L. Meyers" writes: > >> 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. ;-) ) > > What did you do in Woody (that's the version, right?) to make it work? > It's not working in my Woody :-( > > Maybe you installed some font package. Hm. "apt-cache search bdf" > doesn't turn up fonts, only utilities. Yes, Woody, now stable. Just used dselect and installed all the available fonts including Chinese, Vietnamese, everything. My assumption was: if they are all there, each app will gobble the ones it wants. Apparently works. >> 2. Cannot find the verb "to frob" in my English dictionary. > > It means to change. It also has some connotations about how > fine-grained it is, but I'm sure that http://www.dict.org/ (there's > also an Emacs interface called dict-web.el I think) has the full > story. > >> 3. Have a Postscript level 3 printer. How can I know if it "groks" >> (he-he) Latin-9 directly? > > I suggest to pretend it does. Then print some umlauts and see if they > come out. Then print the euro sign and see what you get. On the Debian machine don't even have a ps capable printer. Use apsfilter. But nevertheless don't get error messages. ps-print just works. Lucien -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. PGP key fingerprint=F1C0 D9AE 1B18 1405 4DFA B4CC 6DC7 FF78 C76E FB15 To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": assassination Sudan Rumsfeld ammunition Peking Serbian Iraq Arafat Bush