From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "James P. Ascher" <jpsa@protonmail.com>
Cc: 42007@debbugs.gnu.org, viniciusjl@ig.com.br
Subject: bug#42007: ps-print encodes post-ASCII Unicode incorrectly for common characters
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:05:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8pbt1qu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0h7v3jbdb.fsf@protonmail.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:47:52 +0000
> From: "James P. Ascher" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> I'd like to use ps-print to print hard copies of emails from my
> colleagues, but it fails for certain common Unicode characters beyond
> the basic ASCII, rendering them as '?'.
>
> MINIMAL EXAMPLE:
>
> 1. New buffer with "What’s up?—Dude."
> 2. Call C-u M-x ps-print-buffer and save as test.ps
> 3. The line in question PostScript code reads:
>
> (What?s up??Dude.) S
>
> which renders:
>
> "What?s up??Dude."
>
> It should render "What’s up?—Dude."
I don't think ps-print supports non-ASCII characters beyond Latin-1,
definitely not unless you customize ps-mule and ps-bdf with
appropriate font.
Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-22 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-22 16:47 bug#42007: ps-print encodes post-ASCII Unicode incorrectly for common characters James P. Ascher via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-06-22 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-06-22 19:11 ` James P. Ascher via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-07 16:08 ` Peter Münster
2021-12-07 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-07 18:40 ` Peter Münster
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