Re: how to print national characters in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: rabbit50@tenbit.pl
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:15:04 +0100
> 
> I am running emacs 22.
> I installed intlfonts 1.2.1 package to emacs
> and configured them for X:
> 
> $ xset +fp /usr/local/share/emacs/fonts
> $ xset fp rehash
> 
> then chose some font from intlfonts: -ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-72-72-C-70-ISO8859-2.
> Emacs changed font to this one, so it looks like fonts are installed properly in my system.
> 
> Then I put some national fonts to *scratch* and tried to print it with M-x ps-print-region.
> 
> Emacs tells:
> 
> These characters in the buffer can't be printed:
>  ą, ą, ą, ę, ę, ę, ę, ę, ż, ż, ż
> Click them to jump to the buffer position,
> or C-u C-x = will give information about them.
> 
> Please answer y or n.  Font for some characters not found, continue anyway? (y or n) 
> 
> 
> 
> Unfortunatelly, document printed does not contain my national fonts.
> 
> Have You got idea what might be the reason?

The remedy for this problem depends on how (and whether) your printer
supports Latin-2 characters in PostScript mode.  In a nutshell, Emacs
can either use the Latin-2 fonts built into your printer (but it needs
to be told it can do that), or download BDF fonts from the Intlfonts
package into the printer, and use that.  To see how to set this up, I
suggest to read the commentary near the beginning of the file
ps-mule.el (that is part of the Emacs package), and set
ps-multibyte-buffer according to the information there.  It is also
possible that you will have to customize the variable
bdf-directory-list.