From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does ps-print-buffer-with-faces give the correct colors? Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:46:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1EE6DD10-5F37-4A0C-9BBE-04A6A7C19E2E@Web.DE> References: <4749B1B4-7D7A-4C4F-8990-BEE8B2E698A3@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164415736 32326 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 00:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 01:48:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnlit-000361-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:48:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnlit-0001oK-Ax for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnliU-0001gN-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnliT-0001fb-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnliT-0001fY-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GnliS-0006qc-A4; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.221] (helo=fmmailgate01.web.de) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GnC6Y-0006la-7e; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1870D3C8E1E1; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:46:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [87.193.63.222] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GnC5w-0003oz-00; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:46:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38945 Archived-At: Am 23.11.2006 um 05:08 schrieb Eli Zaretskii: > What encodings can't PS preserve, and why? Utf-8. To be more specific: everything non ISO Latin-1 is a problem =20 for the PS print routines in GNU Emacs: These characters in the buffer can't be printed: =C4=84, =C4=85, =C5=81, =E2=82=AC, =E2=80=9E, =C5=A0, =C5=A1, =C8=98, = =C5=B9, =C5=BA, =C5=BB, =C4=8C, =C5=82, =C5=BD, =E2=80=9D, and =20 more... Click them to jump to the buffer position, or C-u C-x =3D will give information about them. Please don't mention PS Mule and BDF fonts! The reason why it fails =20 lies in the PostScript fonts: they can only provide up to 256 glyphs. =20= CID type PS fonts for use with CJK scripts can provide more glyphs. =20 Right now there is no PostScript "fontset" defined that supports the =20 planes defined in Unicode, not even for the first 64 K positions in =20 the BMP, the Basic Multilingual Plane. It is clever to use the operating system's knowledge. -- Greetings Pete There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If =20 it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.