Re: ps-print: Patch for international printing with bdf fonts

Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: [...] OK. Some additional comments: The patch contains one hunk to use ps-mule-encode-8bit instead of ps-mule-encode-7bit for the chinese-sisheng bdf fonts. I did not do this change myself. As far as I remember, somebody from www.susekorea.net did this change and claimed that it is necessary. But I found no way how to test this, this font isn't used when printing the HELLO file. So you may want to omit this hunk. There is a similar change using ps-mule-encode-8bit instead of ps-mule-encode-7bit for the Korean Munhwa-Bold-KSC-EUC-H font. This one seems to be really necessary when using (setq ps-multibyte-buffer 'non-latin-printer) I tested both ps-mule-encode-7bit and ps-mule-encode-8bit and found that the output is correct only when ps-mule-encode-8bit is used. And I changed the hunk to use gulim24.bdf instead of hanglm24.bdf a bit, now it looks like: - (normal bdf "hanglm24.bdf" ps-mule-encode-7bit 2)) + (normal bdf ("gulim24.bdf" "hanglm24.bdf") ps-mule-encode-7bit 2)) i.e. it now leaves hanglm24.bdf in place as a fallback. Therefore it should not hurt to apply this hunk even if somebody has only hanglm24.bdf but not gulim24.bdf. ChangeLog and patch here: 2002-06-10 Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; * ps-mule.el (ps-mule-string-encoding): use find-coding-system for XEmacs where coding-system-p is used in Emacs. * ps-mule.el (ps-mule-begin-job): assume that enable-multibyte-character is always t because this variable exists only for compatibility with Emacs and does not change the behaviour of XEmacs. * ps-mule.el: define a few aliases for coding systems which have different names in Emacs. * ps-mule.el (ps-mule-font-info-database-ps): use ps-mule-encode-8bit instead of ps-mule-encode-7bit for the Korean Munhwa-Bold-KSC-EUC-H font. * ps-mule.el (ps-mule-font-info-database-bdf): prefer gulim24.bdf over hanglm24.bdf (looks better). use ps-mule-encode-8bit instead of ps-mule-encode-7bit for the chinese-sisheng bdf fonts. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。