From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems printing non-usascii characters Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 23:49:23 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87y9aj2p1j.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> <877ki33ww9.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> <87elcaop0n.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031091273 20887 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 22:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:14:33 +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 17mLwN-0005Qe-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:14:31 +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 17mLxx-00031p-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:16:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eNDRYOndEKzyQDr2mkZl9HEFDZ8= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104459 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:1022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1022 "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. > 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. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)