Re: Need contact to solve ntEmacs problems with accented characters

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Ryszard Kubiak wrote:

>     GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2001-10-22 on buffy
> 
> and the system where I experience problems with printing is Windows 2000.
> The coding used for accented characters is cp1250, as you probably 
> know. I work with MULE with the settings that I quote below. The 
> printer is a network one, connected to an NT server.
> 
> I had made experiments using the method you described in yor letter (setting
> a coding prior to lpr-buffer). The codings I experimented with were 
> iso-8859-2, cp1250 and cp852. All gave similar bad results -- the 
> accented characters were badly printed.

What happens if you change the value of printer-name so that the printed 
text goes to a disk file?  Can you then visit that file with "C-x RET c 
CODING RET C-x C-f", where CODING is the same encoding you used with 
lpr-buffer?

If this experiment succeeds, then Emacs is doing what it's supposed to 
do, and the cause of your problem is in the printer setup: it might not 
support the character sets you are trying to use.

Could you please describe in more detail what does ``accented characters 
were badly printed'' mean?  How exactly are they printed? what do you see 
on paper?

> I very much suspect that my problem with printing may be somehow related
> with two other ones which I've encountered. Namely,
> 1. Dired's directory badly displays accented characters though the coding
> used there is cp1250.
> 2. Font selection in --unibyte mode does not work. Whatever font I select,
> using methods
> described in the documentation and avrious FAQs, the accented characters
> seem to come from latin-1.

No, I think these problems are different ones.  The problem with Dired 
should be solved by setting file-name-coding-system to latin-2 or cp1250.

> Are you capable of working with cp1250 characters in your environment so
> that you can judge the results?

Yes, but I don't have a printer capable of printing those characters, so 
I cannot test lpr-buffer with cp1250.