experience report: cups, wordview and printing -- GREAT

[Ian Pilcher]

Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> 
> I have one little problem though. Ever since I added the [afmdirs], the
> umlauts (diphtongs) üöä and other special characters do not occupy any
> space in my text. böse would become bse with an ö under the s character.
> This happens on the screen as well as in the postscript output. Is there
> some bug in the font handling?
> 

Many.  :-)

Currently, the PostScript driver gets Unicode strings from the
application
and just converts them to 8-bit character strings.  Any characters that
aren't in Microsoft's "ANSI" character set will get dropped.  Mismatches
between the ISO encodings used by the X server and the Microsoft "ANSI"
encoding could cause more problems.  All in all, it's a mess.

I'm working on getting the PostScript driver Unicode-enabled.  This may
or may not help your situation, depending on the Unicode/ASCII status of
the code path between your application and the driver.

Frankly, I'm not sure why loading the PostScript metrics is affecting
your display.  I just don't understand the way that the two interact.

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Ian Pilcher                                         ian.pilcher at home.com
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