experience report: cups, wordview and printing -- GREAT

[Moritz Moeller-Herrmann]

Ian Pilcher in %GROUP:

>> 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.

Thanks a lot for your work. I am sure it will all be worked out at least 
for the western languages soon :-)