Re: ps-print does not print and report correctly

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.09.2005 um 09:13 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> (push '(latin-iso8859-15
>         (normal builtin "FONTNAME_FOR_NORMAL" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
>         (bold builtin "FONTNAME_FOR_BOLD" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
>         (italic builtin "FONTNAME_FOR_ITALIC" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
>         (bold-italic builtin "FONTNAME_FOR_BOLD_ITALIC" 
> ps-mule-encode-8bit))
>         ps-mule-font-info-database-ps)
>
> (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'non-latin-printer)

Although ps-mule is meant for multi-byte use and my ISO Latin encoded 
files are single-byte I couldn't see a difference. I first launched GNU 
Emacs 22.0.50 as usual, opened the ISO Latin-15 encoded file and used 
ps-spool-buffer-with-faces to print to a buffer. I then renamed that 
buffer to save it and evaluated this code in *scratch* buffer:

        (require 'ps-mule)
        (push '(latin-iso8859-15
                (normal builtin "Courier" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
                (bold builtin "Courier-Bold" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
                (italic builtin "Courier-Oblique" ps-mule-encode-8bit)
	        (bold-italic builtin "Courier-BoldOblique" 
ps-mule-encode-8bit))
                ps-mule-font-info-database-ps)

Then I again invoked ps-spool-buffer-with-faces and compared the two PS 
buffers. The only difference lies in the date of printing.


To me it looks as if GNU Emacs 22 still can't print in another ISO 
Latin dialect than ISO 8859-1. And I think it's almost six years now (a 
few weeks are missing) that the European Union fixated their 
currencies' exchange rates and the € started to really exist.

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  Pete

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